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Remarks at the Bicentennial Observance of the Battle of Yorktown in Virginia

… values around which we now must rally -- human dignity, individual rights, and representative democracy. Our nations share the foundation of common law, separation of powers, and limited …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With the Student Body of Providence-St. Mel High School in Chicago, Illinois

… Q. Mr. President, my name is Matthew Hicks, and my question is if the United States is a democracy, why do we support and are allied to countries such as Argentina and South Africa which … behind the scenes try to persuade them that there is a better way to live. In other words, our democracy. Once to a political leader that you say out in the paper and make a big charge and … but it's kind of difficult. There are some political problems in our own country, in our democracy, because of things that you're doing that aren't democratic.'' But you say it to him …

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The President's News Conference

… Q. Do you think that if the Sandinista government remains in power in Nicaragua that democracy and freedom can survive in Central America? The President. Well, Lou, let me answer it … that then threw out part of its own revolutionary forces because they wanted legitimate democracy, and yet at the same time that it's complaining because those same forces -- those are …

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Toast at a Luncheon Hosted by Colombian President Belisario Betancur Cuartas in Bogota

… tradition of law and liberty in Colombia. ``I aspire,'' you said, ``to a happy and open democracy in which citizens who wish to be representatives must win that right in a frank contest …

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Toasts of the President & PM Margaret Thatcher of the UK at the Dinner Honoring the President

… ideas, the rights of man under God, the rule of law, constitutional government, parliamentary democracy, all the great notions of human liberty still so ardently sought by so many and so much …

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Remarks at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

… we embarked on the greatest experiment in human history with the founding of the first modern democracy. All of what we've accomplished can be traced to the energy, creativity that is …

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Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom at the Dinner Honoring the President

… ideas, the rights of man under God, the rule of law, constitutional government, parliamentary democracy, all the great notions of human liberty still so ardently sought by so many and so much …

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Address to the Nation on Events in Lebanon and Grenada

… had sent an urgent request that we join them in a military operation to restore order and democracy to Grenada. They were proposing this action under the terms of a treaty, a mutual … Soviet-Cuban colony, being readied as a major military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy. We got there just in time. I can't say enough in praise of our military -- Army …

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Remarks at the Recommissioning Ceremony for the U.S.S. New Jersey in Long Beach, California

… peaceful achievements in every sphere of human experience. In our two centuries of continuous democracy, we've been the envy of the world in technology, commerce, agriculture, and economic …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Editors and Station Managers of Ethnically Oriented Publications and Radio Stations

… of the free world, is to bring about a time when all the people will have the very basis of democracy, which is the right of self-determination. And I don't think we should ever give that …

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