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Ronald Reagan Inspirational Quotes (554)

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I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties.
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Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary.
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Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work - work with us, not over us to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it foster productivity, not stifle it.
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... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.
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. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.
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Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say.
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Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.
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The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.
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Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.
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Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.
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Freedom-loving people around the world must say . . . I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.
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They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.
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The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.
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In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
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You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.
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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
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I remain California-bound
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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind. Our founding documents proclaim to the world that freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few. It is the universal right of all God's children.
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There is nothing wrong with America that Americans can't fix.
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The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.
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Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.
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Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide.
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Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.
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