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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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Address to the Nation on the Federal Budget and Deficit Reduction

… dollars the American people have contributed to our defense are stealing from the arsenal of democracy the very weapons our young men need to defend freedom. And our tolerance of this …

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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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Question-and-Answer Session With High School Students on Domestic and Foreign Policy Issues

… from other countries in search of freedom. Basically, we are, almost all of us, committed to democracy. But they have never, for the most part, developed in the same sense that we have, and …

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Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce

… help,'' so we can get the economy moving again. Your 70th annual meeting is living proof that democracy and freedom are alive and well in America. But as you know, America is more the …

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Remarks at the Annual Foundation Luncheon of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago in Illinois

… intellectual, traveled through our new country recording his observations in his book, ``Democracy in America.'' The American way of life captured his imagination, especially the …

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Remarks at the Annual Convention of the American Bar Association

… better than totalitarian rulers themselves -- that these regimes are weak in a way that no democracy can ever be weak. For the fragility of totalitarian government is the fragility of any …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters

… working to resolve the international debt burden, carrying the flag for the spread of democracy, and seeking real gains on key global issues from human rights to nonproliferation. At …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Annual Convention of the American Newspaper Publishers Association in New York City

… this hemisphere, are all Americans, and all of us share a vital stake in the future of democracy and freedom. We have it within our power to act now to keep the situation manageable, …

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Interview With Representatives of NHK Television in Tokyo, Japan

… with the world our secrets of economic growth and human progress. We can offer the sunlight of democracy to people everywhere who dream of escaping the darkness of tyranny to decide their own …

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