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Ronald Wilson Reagan

Former President of the United States

(1911 - 2004)

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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Movement - Stop - Views
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.
Man - President
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her - that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now.
Belief - Spirits
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.
Doing - Government - People
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they found implicit in the Bible's teachings of the inherent worth and dignity of each individual. This same sense of man patterned the convictions of those who framed the English system of law inherited by our own Nation, as well as the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Finding - Man - Religion - Right - Wellness
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment [limiting the presidency to two terms] was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him?
President - Voting - Wants
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

The work of volunteer groups throughout our country represents the very heart and soul of America. They have helped make this the most compassionate, generous, and humane society that ever existed on the face of this earth.
Compassion - Countries - Earth - Generosity
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.
Difficulty - Independence - Leadership
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

If you think you can - you can!
Failing
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
Bravery - Man
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.
Border - Programming - State
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - ‘We the people’.
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.
Oneself - Traditions
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.
Value
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

The Federal Reserve is answerable to no one.
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

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.
Belief - Human - Open
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
End - Knowledge - Man
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

If you're explaining, you're losing.
Explanation - Loss - Politics
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
Human - Judging - Right
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats.
Speaking - State
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Knowledge
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to our people.
Feelings - Giving - President - State - Unions
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.
Belief - Drugs - Expert - Hearing - Medicine
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals. You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?
Boundaries - Economy - Guarantee - Limits - Meaning - Politics
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
Earth - Man - Patriotism
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility.
Bureaucracy - Education - Isolation - Leadership - Parents - Remembering - State
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.
Human - Value
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down.
Belief - Economy - Essence - Giving - Growing - Human - Notions - Spirits
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more government largesse accompanied always by more government authority, less individual liberty, and ultimately, totalitarianism, always advanced as for our own good. The alternative is the dream conceived by our Founding Fathers, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society.
Alternative - Choice - Order - State
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.
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