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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters on Domestic and Foreign Policy Issues

… elected in a country that has had a history back over the decades of military rule and no democracy. It is a government that has embarked on a land reform program, that has moved up an … given a chance at the ballot box, have made it plain that they want order and peace and democracy. And this government there is making every effort to persuade the guerrillas -- to … We certainly encourage that kind of thing. But these are other countries that have adopted democracy. Costa Rica. I don't know of any country -- they don't even have an army. They are the …

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Remarks at a White House Briefing for the National Association of Counties

… genuinely believe that the farther representatives are from the people they serve, the better democracy will function. Well, that's an assumption I reject, as I know you do. Democracy depends on government being close to the people. I have a quote that's kind of a … bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy. It is one element that our institution sets up under the pretense of having authority …

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Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers

… first, to offer support to the free nations of the region, to those that have already achieved democracy, and to those that are working toward it in good faith. Democracy in the region has achieved a firm foothold. Costa Rica has long been a healthy democracy. Honduras is making strides, and now, under the leadership of President Duarte and in …

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Remarks at a Ceremony Celebrating the 90th Birthday of John J. McCloy

… Republic of Germany today is one of the free and prosperous countries in the world -- a democracy of tested stability, an important partner in the Atlantic alliance. This seems rather … the country which had been destroyed. And you helped us to attain the way of life of a free democracy. When we Berliners speak about you, we think of the cessation of this mounting problem, …

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Radio Address to the Nation on the Trip to Europe

… anniversary of D-day, the great Allied invasion that set Europe on the course toward liberty, democracy, and peace. That great battle and the war it helped bring to an end mark the beginning …

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Bonn Economic Summit Political Declaration on the 40th Anniversary of the End of the Second World War

… We deplore the division of Europe. In our commitment to the ideals of peace, freedom and democracy we seek by peaceful means to lower the barriers that have arisen within Europe. We …

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Radio Address to the Nation on the Fiscal Year 1986 Budget

… as I'm President, we're not going back to the days when America was fast becoming an impotent democracy, too weak to meet defense commitments or to resist Communist takeovers and, yes, too …

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Remarks Following Discussions With President Samora Moises Machel of Mozambique

… to encourage the development of democratic government in all the nations of southern Africa. Democracy and the respect for fundamental human liberties are not only consistent with our values …

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Remarks Following Discussions With President Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador

… and yet that assistance passed in the House by a very slim margin. If there's to be peace and democracy in the region, if our neighbors are to be spared the tragedy that comes from every …

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Message to the Congress Transmitting Proposed Legislation on a Constitutional Amendment on Prayer in School

… faith was indispensable to the maintenance of their republican institutions. 1 de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 316 (Vintage ed. 1945). Today, I join with the people of this nation in …

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