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Let us be aware that while they [the Soviet leadership] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.

— Ronald Reagan

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Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

The only way there could be war is if they start it; we're not going to start a war.

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

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

Dedication of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (1991)

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

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