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When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal for them to do that.

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Ronald Reagan
Age: 93 †
Born: 1911
Born: February 6
Died: 2004
Died: June 5
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The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We Americans don't want war and we don't start fights. We don't maintain a strong military force to conquer or coerce others. The purpose of our military is simple and straightforward: we want to prevent war.
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I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
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I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular threat?
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They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country.
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With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.
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If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business
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If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.
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Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.
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We will remain steady. We will pursue every avenue in the search for peace and stability.
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Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.
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Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.
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A people free to choose will always choose peace.
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These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere. . . . You can run but you can't hide.
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The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and so many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution 165 authorized and requested the President to designate the year 1983 as the 'Year of the Bible.'
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Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.
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The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.
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If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?
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In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal America's is.
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