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Remarks Upon Return From Europe

… for America. The European people know the United States is working hard for freedom, democracy, and peace, and believe me they appreciate our efforts, as we do theirs. I know you've …

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Joint Columbia-United States Statement on Drug Abuse and Trafficking

… resulting from the enormous profits of illicit narcotics trade poses a terrible threat to democracy in the Americas. Our mutual dedication to the anti-narcotics struggle is an integral …

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Proclamation 5171 -- Pan American Day and Pan American Week, 1984

… as a means of solving the difficult problems we face. This is a vote of confidence in democracy as an effective means of governing -- a practical problem-solving mechanism -- not just …

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Remarks Announcing the Release of the Hostages From the Trans World Airlines Hijacking Incident

… may lie quiet and deep, but that will rise to answer our call in every time of peril. Freedom, democracy, and peace have enemies; they must also have steadfast friends. The United States gives …

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Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security

… help the Governments of El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, and others in their struggles for democracy against guerrillas supported through Cuba and Nicaragua. These pictures only tell a …

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Remarks at the Annual Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New Orleans, Louisiana

… the lion's heart. I had the luck to give the roar.'' Well, America is the lion's heart of democracy. We have an obligation to give that democracy a voice, even an occasional roar. For too long our nation had been moot to the … broken treaties, against the denial of human liberties. We began speaking out for freedom and democracy and the values that all of us share in our hearts. Now some critics said that this was …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Regional Editors and Broadcasters on United States Assistance for the Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance

… of Nicaraguans banked the streets. The new leaders claimed to embrace the highest ideals of democracy and individual liberty, and in the course of some 18 months, the United States provided … freedom of the press. And throughout the country, millions of Nicaraguans dared to hope for democracy. And soon these hopes were crushed. Just months after taking power, the Communists … unrest. Have the people in so many of these countries struggled to reemerge into the light of democracy only to be confronted with Soviet-backed efforts to subvert their new governments and …

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Remarks at a California Republican Party Fundraising Dinner in Long Beach

… to undermine our will. To keep our families safe, to keep our country at peace, the enemies of democracy must know that America has the courage to stay strong. The security of the country, of … the Soviet-Cuban-Nicaraguan war machine is not being built to make Central America safe for democracy. It's not being built to pursue peace there or economic and social reform. It's being … point out the faults of our friends and insist on reforms. But El Salvador is trying to build democracy. El Salvador did hold elections and, under threat of death, a much greater percentage …

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Interview With Agence France Presse on Foreign and Domestic Issues

… in Central America. As you know, we are working actively to assure that El Salvador's new democracy is allowed to develop without violence or guerrilla harassment. And we are determined … in El Salvador, for example, is through free elections. But we see those who oppose democracy now trying, through violence, to disrupt the March 25 elections there. What the United … should the United States and France, two of the great democracies of history, not want to see democracy prevail in Central America? Federal Budget Deficit Q. Many French and European …

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Proclamation 5082 -- 200th Anniversary of the Signing of the Treaty of Paris

… pursue peaceful relations and our desire to befriend those others who share our commitment to democracy and liberty. In tribute to the remarkable accomplishments of the Treaty of Paris, the …

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