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Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union - February 1985

… have a military-industrial complex until a time of danger, and then it becomes the arsenal of democracy. Spending for defense is investing in things that are priceless -- peace and freedom. … freedom to worship, vote, and create wealth. Our mission is to nourish and defend freedom and democracy, and to communicate these ideals everywhere we can. America's economic success is …

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Interview With Morton Kondracke and Richard H. Smith of Newsweek Magazine

… What do you want? Why should we help?' And they gave them the statement, and it was pure democracy: elections, a pluralistic society, free press, free labor unions, all of these things. … -- almost suddenly -- got rid of the other elements in the revolution that really wanted the democracy, because the Sandinistas were Communist to begin with. And now they have a totalitarian …

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The President's News Conference

… appears your defiance was aimed at the Senate, weren't you, in reality, defying the working of democracy in America , while advocating democracy around the world? The President. I think that this selection of a judge -- and what you were referring to as democracy -- I think was totally out of line with what the procedure should be. We were not …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters on the London Economic Summit Conference

… a fact of life. Somehow people have felt that that's the way to express their ideas in a democracy. In spite of all of the legitimate channels that are open to them, they take to the …

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Remarks at a California Republican Party Fundraising Dinner in Los Angeles

… was, ``Will El Salvador fall to the Communists?'' Well, today the question is, ``Will democracy win in Nicaragua?'' And tomorrow the question will be, ``How soon?'' We've held firm. …

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Remarks at the 1986 Reagan Administration Executive Forum

… stakes are high. We must provide the Nicaraguan freedom fighters with what they need to bring democracy to their country. Earlier, I quoted Adam Smith. Well, another great economist, Ludwig …

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Remarks at a White House Meeting With Reagan-Bush Campaign Leadership Groups

… to eternal shame. By pushing forward the frontiers of freedom, we reinvigorate the forces for democracy and peace. At the same time, we will continue trying to work with the Soviet Union to …

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Remarks at a Campaign Rally for Senator Chic Hecht in Reno, Nevada

… if you want America to be what F.D.R., Franklin Delano Roosevelt, called a great arsenal of democracy; if, like Harry Truman, you want to continue to help those resisting communism; if you …

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Toast at a Luncheon Hosted by Colombian President Belisario Betancur Cuartas in Bogota

… tradition of law and liberty in Colombia. ``I aspire,'' you said, ``to a happy and open democracy in which citizens who wish to be representatives must win that right in a frank contest …

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Remarks to Members of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists

… later, the cartoons of Thomas Nast helped wash the soil of corruption from the fabric of democracy. As Boss Tweed said, and I'll quote: ``I don't care a straw for newspaper articles. My …

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