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Remarks at the Italian-American Conference on Private Sector Initiatives in Venice, Italy

… could be called the common credo of every democratic nation across the Earth. Yet if freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must …

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Remarks at the Exchange of Documents Ratifying the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

… to take a moment to thank the United States Senate for their work on this treaty. The way of democracy is sometimes a complicated way and sometimes trying, but it is a good way, and we …

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Remarks at the Annual Dinner of the Conservative Political Action Conference

… mourning and national recommitment, but by attempts to evade responsibility. Well, not so in a democracy, and not so in America. John Glenn said the other day that after the pad fire that … and socialism are dying and the free market is growing; and all across the world, the march of democracy continues. Yet, even as I think the tide of history is all but irreversibly turned our … So, let the choice be clear. Will it be ``Blame America First,'' or will it be ``On to Democracy'' and ``Forward for Freedom''? And freedom is the issue. The stakes are that high. You …

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Remarks to Members of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London

… a strategy of public candor about the moral and fundamental differences between statism and democracy, but also a strategy of vigorous diplomatic engagement; a policy that rejects both the … of Western Europe, together with the United States, Canada, Japan, and others -- this House of Democracy -- engaged in an active diplomacy while sparking a startling growth of democratic … liberty, but only if we, as free men and women, joined together in a worldwide movement toward democracy, a crusade for freedom, a crusade that would be not so much a struggle of armed might, …

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Remarks to Business Leaders During a White House Briefing on the Federal Budget and Deficit Reduction

… on our country I'd like to share. As I mentioned earlier, change is never easy in a democracy. I'm proud of the changes that we've made. But each time we've succeeded, it's always …

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Toasts at the State Dinner for Chancellor Helmut Kohl of the Federal Republic of Germany

… of liberty and justice. This is the source of his sense of purpose, the source from which democracy draws its strength, a power beyond the reach of tyrants. Today the Western democracies …

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Remarks to the Tax Reform Action Coalition

… cynical enough to believe that real change is impossible, I wouldn't have run for this job. Democracy's a cumbersome process. Like Winston Churchill said, ``Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With the Students and Faculty at Moscow State University

… population is now getting its first taste of economic freedom. At the same time, the growth of democracy has become one of the most powerful political movements of our age. In Latin America in … are the order of the day. Throughout the world, free markets are the model for growth. Democracy is the standard by which governments are measured. We Americans make no secret of our … is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.'' Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, …

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Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Prisoners of War Medal

… to America. Your resistance to the evil of communism foreshadowed the growing movement toward democracy that we see today around the world. With your blood and valor, you won time for the …

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Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Representative Jack F. Kemp of New York

… prosperity: it also nourishes a powerful popular force for greater political freedom and democracy. And our revolutionary vision of democracy also means supporting the freedom fighters who take up arms against brutal Communist …

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