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"And let us never forget that in honoring our flag, we honor the American men and women who have courageously fought and died for it over the last 200 years, patriots who set an ideal above any consideration of self. Our flag flies free today because of their sacrifice."
"I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home."
"The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves."
"We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief."
"Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook."
"Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men."
"A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah."
"The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
"We're Americans, and we have a rendezvous with destiny . . . No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than Americans."
"A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours."
"Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources."
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth."
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."
"We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added."
"If not us, who? And if not now, when?"
"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."