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Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan
Age: 93 †
Born: 1911
Born: February 6
Died: 2004
Died: June 5
40Th U.S. President
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Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.
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One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.
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...100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt...all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government.
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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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Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.
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May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.
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They are our brothers, these freedom fighters.... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left it is right versus wrong.
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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
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Information is the oxygen of the modern age.
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The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray
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For one, we very much need in any immigration bill - we need protection for people who are in this country and who have not become citizens, for example, that they are protected and legitimized and given permanent residency here. And we want to see some things of that kind added to the immigration bill.
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If you owe the bank $10,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $10,000,000 they have a problem. After all is said and done, more is said than done. Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them.
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When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident.
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If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.
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We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.
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For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God
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Perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.
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Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.
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A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.
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As two proud and independent peoples, there is much that distinguishes us one from the other, but there is also much that we share: a vast continent, with its common hardships and uncommon duties generations of mutual respect and support, and an abiding friendship that grows ever stronger.
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