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"It doesn't do any good to hold the door open for someone if they don't have a way to walk through it. And if they do have a way to pass through it then you probably don't need to hold it open because they can open it for themselves."
"We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom."
"America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong."
"Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them nevertheless. This constitutional republic, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, prospered and grew strong. To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. That is our purpose in the world - nothing more and nothing less."
"Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power."
"The family has always been the cornerstone of American society."
"The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of relentless conflict would give way to a new era, one where freedom from violence prevailed.... But the awful truth is that the use of violence for political gain has become more, not less, widespread in the last decade."
"I'm convinced, more than ever, that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man."
"But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth ."
"Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive"
"Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible]."
"You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You put things in perspective. You pull your energies together. You change. You go forward. My fellow Americans, I have a great deal that I want to accomplish with you and for you over the next two years. And, the Lord willing, that's exactly what I intend to do."
"We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests."
"I doubt evolution is real."
"Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better."
"Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats."
"If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly."
"While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom."
"The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era."
"We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they can get the foreign workers more cheaply. It has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled American workers or the costs of training them."