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Remarks at the Welcoming Ceremony for Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands

… Queen Wilhelmina came to Washington and spoke to a joint meeting of our Congress. She said, ``Democracy is our most precious heritage. We cannot breathe in the sullen atmosphere of despotic …

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Remarks at the Reopening of the Press Briefing Room at the White House

… with lightheartedness, I don't need to stress the serious and essential role you play in our democracy. The public depends on you to keep them informed about what we're really doing here and …

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Remarks at a Meeting With Editors and Publishers of Trade Magazines

… representative government, a foreign policy that calls for a global crusade for freedom and democracy. It's this combination of strategic strength and rhetorical candor that for the first …

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Toasts of President Reagan and President Soeharto of Indonesia at the State Dinner

… with regard to the noble values which we hold dearly -- such as freedom and independence, democracy and humanitarianism. We perceive the manifestation of such friendship from the deep …

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Remarks at the National Legislative Conference of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL - CIO

… growth of Federal spending of the past decade. Your presence at this conference proves that democracy and freedom are alive and well in America. But as you know, America's more the … more than one generation away from extinction? Your presence at this conference proves that democracy and freedom are alive and well. So, we'll just keep it that way. I don't think you've … condemn these crimes and work for international repudiation. And we will speak and work for democracy. Winston Churchill said that it was ``the worst form of government in the world, except …

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Remarks at the Welcoming Ceremony for Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of the Federal Republic of Germany

… the human spirit and the civilized mind. On one side of the wall, people live in dignity and democracy; on the other side, in domination and defeat. We of the United States are aware of the …

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Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki of Japan at the State Dinner

… similarities are. We are two nations based on freedom, free enterprise, private industry, and democracy. We have become principal trading partners and chief competitors. [ Laughter ] There's …

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Remarks at the Centennial Meeting of the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus in Hartford, Connecticut

… the family, of community and church -- the realization that the Western ideas of freedom and democracy spring directly from the Judeo-Christian religious experience -- are not often publicly … and bullets to vote in a free election there. They offered eloquent testimony to the appeal of democracy, to the rightness of our support of their desire to resist that tiny cadre of … the British Parliament, I called for a worldwide crusade for freedom and a global campaign for democracy. As part of this forward strategy for freedom, I recently had the pleasure of signing …

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Remarks at the Centennial Meeting of the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus in Hartford, Connecticut

… of the family, of community and church--the realization that the Western ideas of freedom and democracy spring directly from the Judeo-Christian religious experience--are not often publicly … and bullets to vote in a free election there. They offered eloquent testimony to the appeal of democracy, to the rightness of our support of their desire to resist that tiny cadre of … the British Parliament, I called for a worldwide crusade for freedom and a global campaign for democracy. As part of this forward strategy for freedom, I recently had the pleasure of signing …

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Remarks on Signing the World Communications Year Proclamation

… his term. As long as information, though, can flow freely, America can grow and thrive, and democracy itself will be stronger than before. This principle that Jefferson championed is …

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