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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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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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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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Remarks at the High School Commencement Exercises in Glassboro, New Jersey

… to speak out for freedom, again and again, making the crucial moral distinctions between democracy and totalitarianism. So, too, I am convinced that we must take seriously the Soviet …

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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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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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