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Toasts at the State Dinner for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada

… with 59 percent.'' [Laughter] Look, I'll settle for 39 percent. [Laughter] Every leader of a democracy knows the turbulence and the challenges that free societies exemplify. Every leader …

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Remarks at the Annual Republican Congressional Fundraising Dinner

… the expansion of freedom around the world. We sent a new message of strength by restoring democracy in Grenada . And by supporting courageous freedom fighters around the world, we're …

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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 Following Discussions With Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita of Japan

… to the Aquino government and to welcome the Republic of Korea 's firm stride along the road of democracy, as evident in the recent Presidential election, as well as to cooperate closely …

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Remarks to World Gas Conference Participants

… has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious.'' "Democracy,'' I added, "is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government …

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Remarks at a Republican Campaign Rally in Little Rock, Arkansas

… to get America on the move again, to make the United States once again the great arsenal of democracy, a light unto the nations, the champion of freedom around the world. For 8 years, …

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Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate Transmitting the Fiscal Year 1990 Budget

… -Our willingness to defend freedom throughout the world has met with success in the spread of democracy and in turning back the tide of communist expansion. Management of the Government … to foster strong economic growth in the Philippines to support that country's return to democracy. Other increases in foreign aid would pay arrearages on contributions to multilateral …

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Remarks at a Campaign Rally for Senator Chic Hecht in Reno, Nevada

… if you want America to be what F.D.R., Franklin Delano Roosevelt, called a great arsenal of democracy; if, like Harry Truman, you want to continue to help those resisting communism; if you …

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Remarks to Members of the National Governors' Association

… they had that an educated populace would guarantee the success of this great experiment in democracy that they were undertaking. Such a strong faith in education must have been based not …

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The President's News Conference Following the Soviet-United States Summit Meeting in Moscow

… that office. And it seems to me that it is an infringement on the rights of our people in a democracy to tell them that they can't vote for someone because of a time limit. I think it … they want to vote for as many times as they want to vote for them. That is the principle of democracy. Soviet-U.S. Relations Q . Mr. President, if I may just ask one more question on the …

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