An All-Powerful Federal Government November 22, 2009
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I believe that part of our troubles are because back over the years, the leadership of the opposing party has step-by-step taken us away from the constitutional principle that we are a federation of sovereign States, and they have tried to reduce the States to administrative districts of an all-powerful Federal Government. And the Federal Government has tried to do things that the Federal Government is not able to do.
Remarks at a Republican Fundraising Reception in
Whippany, New Jersey, October 15, 1981
Freedom Fills Our Souls November 19, 2009
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Yes, in America, freedom seems like the air around us: It’s there; it’s sweet, though we rarely give it a thought. Yet as the air fills our lungs, freedom fills our souls. It gives breath to our laughter and joy. It gives voice to our songs. It gives us strength as we race for our dreams.
Radio Address to the Nation on the Celebration of Thanksgiving Day
November 19, 1988
Volunteer Warriors November 17, 2009
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Just as volunteer warriors won American independence more than two centuries ago, they stand as proud guardians of our freedom today.
Statement on America’s All-Volunteer Armed Force
November 17, 1981
“We the People” Are Free November 14, 2009
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Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which “We the people” tell the government what it is allowed to do. “We the people” are free. This belief has been the underlying basis for everything I’ve tried to do these past eight years.
Farewell Address to the Nation
Oval Office, January 11, 1989
Our Country is Generous November 13, 2009
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To me our country is a living, breathing presence, unimpressed by what others say is impossible, proud of its own success, generous, yes and naive, sometimes wrong, never mean and always impatient to provide a better life for its people in a framework of a basic fairness and freedom.
Official Announcement, Intent to Run for President
New York Hilton, New York, NY, November 13, 1979
History Need Not Be Relived November 11, 2009
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If there is one thing we are sure of it is that history need not be relived; that nothing is impossible, and that man is capable of improving his circumstances beyond what we are told is fact.
Official Announcement, Intent to Run for President
New York Hilton, New York, NY, November 13, 1979
Knowledge of Our Past November 7, 2009
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Knowledge of our past is one of our most treasured possessions, for only with an accurate picture of where we have been can we see where we must go.
Message on the Observance of National Afro-American (Black)
History Month, February 1981, February 2, 1981
Material Needs of the Masses November 2, 2009
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Senator Clark of Pennsylvania … defines liberalism as “meeting the material needs of the masses through the full power of centralized government.” Well, I for one resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me–the free man and woman of this country–as “the masses.”
A Time for Choosing, Address on behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater, Rendezvous with Destiny, October 27, 1964
Totalitarianism October 30, 2009
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The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.
Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate
West Berlin, Germany, June 12, 1987
Rendezvous with Destiny October 27, 2009
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You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.
A Time for Choosing, Address on behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater, Rendezvous with Destiny, October 27, 1964
