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I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

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Ronald Reagan
Age: 93 †
Born: 1911
Born: February 6
Died: 2004
Died: June 5
40Th U.S. President
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Together, we'll build a far better future for America -- a future of growth, opportunity, and security, anchored by the values of a people who are confident, compassionate, and whose heart is good.
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Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.
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This administration is totally colorblind.
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Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
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America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.
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Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.
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I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.
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We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
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I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.
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Let us thank God for life and the blessings He's put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year.
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I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
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You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.
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. . . And always remember that you are Americans, and it is your birthright to dream great dreams in this sweet and blessed land, truly the greatest, freest, strongest nation on Earth.
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But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.
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We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn't end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds.
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