Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald ReaganRead
Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the Bible's significance as a source of wisdom and guidance for humanity's challenges.
Ronald Reagan expresses his belief in the Bible as a comprehensive source of answers to the issues that humanity faces throughout history. He urges Americans to engage with its teachings, suggesting that it holds timeless wisdom that can help navigate modern problems.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of moral values, one might quote Reagan to encourage biblical study.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.
I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.
I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for my own values and beliefs. My candidacy is based on my record, and for that matter, my entire life.
My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let history say of us: "These were golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, and America reached for her best."
We must have faith in the people of this country and faith in our principles.
In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.
If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children...
A man develops a subtle power as a result of the strict observance of celibacy for twelve years. Then he can understand and grasp very subtle things which otherwise elude his intellect. Through that understanding the aspirant can have direct vision of God. That pure understanding alone enables him to realize Truth.
I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?
The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.
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