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We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won
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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In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
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Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.
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With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there is one individual who is not being considered at all, and that is the one who is being aborted. And I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
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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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Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.
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Her many achievements will be appreciated more as time goes on.
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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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Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.
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To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.
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Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. Poland's struggle to be Poland and to secure the basic rights we often take for granted, demonstrates why we dare not take those rights for granted.
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We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
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Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
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I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children a minimum of government authority.
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America is to great to dream small dreams.
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In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.
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Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
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Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.
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If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.
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Those who advocate more and more government regulation have been experimenting for 40 years, trying to create an economic system in which everyone can somehow be made more prosperous by the toil of someone else.
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Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.
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