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If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.

The best social reform program in the world is a job.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows.

Most of my dreams came true.

A drastic reduction in the deficit ... will take place in the fiscal year '82.

Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive.

The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.

Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

By emphasizing the importance of a common language, we safeguard a proud legacy and help to ensure that America's future will be as great as her past.

Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.

The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.

I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.

Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better.

Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy

My dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the Earth.

Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.

How could an actor become president?

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands.

They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy. on Challenger disaster

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country.

Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.

But Nancy is right - Presidents don't have vacations - they just have a change of scenery";

We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom.

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.

Isn't it interesting that all of those people who support the choice of abortion have already been born?

What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Morality in the long run aligned with strategy.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Cars don't cause pollution, trees do.

I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'

If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

I hope when you are my age, you'll be able to say - as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. Our lives were a statement, not an apology.

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Of all the millions of refugees we've seen in the modern world, their flight is always away from, not toward, the Communist world.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.

The moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Tax increases don't eliminate deficits they increase govt. spending.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

We have every right to dream heroic dreams.

For years, I've heard the question: "How could an actor be president?" I've sometimes wondered how you could be president and not be an actor.

Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Double - no, triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.

Please assure me that you are all Republicans.

Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.

There is a limit to what you can do in politics.

Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.