Ronald Reagan Quotes About Peace
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No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
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Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.
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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
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We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
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Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
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The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.
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People do not make wars; governments do.
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Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
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I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.
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For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.
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Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
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The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.
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A people free to choose will always choose peace.
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Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
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It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.
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Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.
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We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.
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History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
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I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.
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Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
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When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.
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