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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Writers for Hispanic, Religious, and Labor Publications

… voters in El Salvador made their way to the polls and voted. They are working at instituting democracy. They haven't made a hundred-percent cleanup of some of the past practices that have …

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Remarks at the Los Angeles, California, County Board of Supervisors' Town Meeting

… authorities how to manage their affairs. That's not representative government; that's not democracy. Early in the last century, Chief Justice John Marshall likened the power to tax with …

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Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Towns and Townships

… in Illinois in which I lived before I was about 8 years old. Those towns are the cradle of democracy. And if anyone has any doubts about the vitality of American liberty, I would suggest …

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Address Before a Joint Session of the Oklahoma State Legislature in Oklahoma City

… of miles away by people for whom no one has ever voted. This isn't freedom. It is not democracy. And it does not work. The time is long overdue for honest men and women at all levels …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session on the Program for Economic Recovery With Newspaper Editors and Radio and Television Directors

… that? The President . Again, I don't think it's possible in such a referendum. I believe in democracy, and I believe in the people's right to vote and have defended it very much. But I …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Regional Editors and Broadcasters on Domestic and Foreign Policy Issues

… in Central America. Well, stated succinctly, we're trying, even amid the turmoil, to encourage democracy, to ensure economic development, and to engage in dialog and listen to every idea that …

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Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association in Atlanta, Georgia

… so we can put real teeth into the principle of equal protection from discrimination. In a democracy, there is no greater expression of equal opportunity than the right to vote. And I am …

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Address at Commencement Exercises at Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois

… the goal of a peaceful community of nations. Only as partners can we defend the values of democracy and human dignity that we hold so dear. There's a single, major issue in our …

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Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1981

… liberty; Bryce Harlow, an architect of public policy whose contributions have strengthened our democracy's political process; Ella Grasso, a genuine public servant who fought against death as … by reading to you something the historian Edward Gibbon wrote about ancient Athens, the first democracy and the fountainhead of Western culture. He wrote that when the Athenians finally …

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The President's News Conference

… fact that we have been helping them. Now, they really showed that there is a real desire for democracy there, and I am therefore going to be optimistic about what happens and avoid a …

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