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Remarks at a Fundraising Dinner for Senator Mack Mattingly in Atlanta, Georgia

… why we call it America's tax plan. Now, there are cynics, as Mack said, who suggest that democracy has become so partisan that such fundamental reform is impossible. Well, we've all … them defend themselves. And we must lend our support to those freedom fighters struggling for democracy in Nicaragua. This is a matter of the freedom of our friends and neighbors and the …

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Remarks at the Annual Members Banquet of the National Rifle Association in Phoenix, Arizona

… insisting that justice be carried out -- and every time you do that, you keep the spirit of democracy strong in America. This morning I had the pleasure of meeting Arizona's Sun City Posse, … Teddy Roosevelt recognized, ``The free, self-reliant, adventurous life, with its rugged . . . democracy; the wild surroundings, the grand beauty of the scenery, the chance to study the ways … progressive, and free. But El Salvador is under attack. Guerrillas with contempt for democracy and armed to the teeth by Nicaragua, Cuba, and the Soviets are determined to shoot …

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Address Before a Joint Session of Congress on the State of the Union - 1986

… must prepare for peace not only by reducing weapons but by bolstering prosperity, liberty, and democracy however and wherever we can. We advance the promise of opportunity every time we speak … those imprisoned in regimes held captive, to those beaten for daring to fight for freedom and democracy -- for their right to worship, to speak, to live, and to prosper in the family of free … for the security of our frontiers, for the protection of our vital interests, than to achieve democracy in Nicaragua and to protect Nicaragua's democratic neighbors. This year I will be …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Members of the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco

… been greater. We can improve the well-being of our people, and we can enhance the forces for democracy, freedom, peace, and human fulfillment around the world, if we stand up for principles … and trade institutions to strengthen world growth and bolster the forces of freedom and democracy. Taken together, these actions give the United States a positive framework for leading … to build a collective partnership with all developing countries for peace, prosperity, and democracy. At the GATT ministerial meeting last November, the United States took the lead in …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Southeast Regional Editors and Broadcasters

… a term of derogation imposed on them by the Sandinistas. These are people who are fighting for democracy and freedom in their country. And here there's no question about my being informed. … wrong, and I don't see anything wrong with other countries that share our feeling about democracy -- even though this is in this hemisphere -- would come to the aid of these freedom … in which we have been -- the democratic nations of the world, together -- trying to help democracy. Q. Mr. President, my name is Tim Kent from WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina. I don't …

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Remarks at the Centennial Meeting of the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus in Hartford, Connecticut

… the family, of community and church -- the realization that the Western ideas of freedom and democracy spring directly from the Judeo-Christian religious experience -- are not often publicly … and bullets to vote in a free election there. They offered eloquent testimony to the appeal of democracy, to the rightness of our support of their desire to resist that tiny cadre of … the British Parliament, I called for a worldwide crusade for freedom and a global campaign for democracy. As part of this forward strategy for freedom, I recently had the pleasure of signing …

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Remarks at the Centennial Meeting of the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus in Hartford, Connecticut

… of the family, of community and church--the realization that the Western ideas of freedom and democracy spring directly from the Judeo-Christian religious experience--are not often publicly … and bullets to vote in a free election there. They offered eloquent testimony to the appeal of democracy, to the rightness of our support of their desire to resist that tiny cadre of … the British Parliament, I called for a worldwide crusade for freedom and a global campaign for democracy. As part of this forward strategy for freedom, I recently had the pleasure of signing …

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Remarks Announcing the Resignation of Robert C. McFarlane as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and the Appointment of John M. Poindexter

… think philosophers have devoted a great amount of thought to whether or not intrinsic flaws in democracy and free enterprise would, over time, lead such systems to decline. And I think it's … economic, and moral incentives to lead these countries in the post-colonial period to adopt democracy, free enterprise? With regard to East-West relations, after the enormously successful …

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Inaugural Address 1985

… we think of those who traveled before us. We stand again at the steps of this symbol of our democracy -- well, we would have been standing at the steps if it hadn't gotten so cold. [Laughter] Now we're standing inside this symbol of our democracy, and we see and hear again the echoes of our past: a general falls to his knees in the …

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Remarks at the Annual Republican Congressional Fundraising Dinner

… speech I was being hanged, the crowd would be twice as big.'' [Laughter] "Success in a democracy,'' as Churchill pointed out, "has little to do with pleasing the crowd and a lot to do … freedom to be snuffed out in Nicaragua, if we cower and refuse to support those who fight for democracy, our country will pay dearly for our lack of courage. I received a letter signed by …

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