Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.
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The poet called Miss Liberty's torch 'the lamp beside the golden door.' Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still is. And now you really know why we're here tonight. The glistening hope of that lamp is still ours. Every promise, every opportunity, is still golden in this land. And through that golden door our children can walk into tomorrow with the knowledge that no one can be denied the promise that is America. Her heart is full her torch is still golden, her future bright. She has arms big enough to comfort and strong enough to support, for the strength in her arms is the strength of her people. She will carry on in the '80s unafraid, unashamed, and unsurpassed. In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal America's is.Ronald Reagan
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
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Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in
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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
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America is too great for small dreams.
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The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted -- because everyone would join that party.
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