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“I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“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, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“As government expands, liberty contracts.”
― Ronald Reagan

“To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.”
― Taylor Swift

“Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.”
― Ronald Reagan

“For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew--or a Quaker--or a Unitarian--or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim- -but tomorrow it may be you--until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end--where all men and all churches are treated as equal--where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice--where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind--and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.

That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe--a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.
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This is the kind of America I believe in--and this is the kind I fought for in the South Pacific, and the kind my brother died for in Europe. No one suggested then that we may have a "divided loyalty," that we did "not believe in liberty," or that we belonged to a disloyal group that threatened the "freedoms for which our forefathers died.”
― John F. Kennedy

“The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.”
― Rush Limbaugh, The Way Things Ought to Be

“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”
― Taylor Swift

“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”
― Ronald Reagan

“A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.”
― Rick Warren

“We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.”
― Ronald Reagan

“You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. ”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.”
― Ronald Reagan

“It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.”
― Taylor Swift

“The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.”
― Harry S. Truman

“Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.”
― Ronald Reagan

“I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.”
― Ronald Reagan

“How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.”
― Ronald Reagan

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
― Mother Theresa of Calcutta

“I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.”
― Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia Throws a Wedding

“[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“I am not a one-issue voter in the sense that indicates I am an ignorant fundamentalist who only cares about one thing. I believe in protecting the environment. I believe in caring for the poor, the orphan, the widow in her distress. These are some of the so-called "issues" that many of us use to justify voting for Obama. How can we possibly claim it is Christian love for the poor and helpless that motivates us to vote for such a man when he is so committed to the killing of the most helpless among us?”
― Joseph Bayly

“Abort the thought, save the baby”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
― Ronald Reagan

“The statement that 'abortions is a women's choice over her body' is a half-truth, because there are two heart+beats, not one.”
― Teresa Squitti