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I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.

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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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
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Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile it needs production [protection].
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If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.
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I don't think any of us should forget that the security of America is our highest responsibility.
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Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies — especially in this hemisphere. None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong.
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If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?
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We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that granted to it by the people It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.
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