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. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

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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I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.
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Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business.
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Today, we're taking a break from the concerns and the bustle of the work-a-day world. But we're also making a new beginning. As we gather around our dining room tables for the midday meal, let us thank God for life and the blessings He's put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year.
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America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.
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The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)
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I know that it is often difficult to stand up for one's beliefs when they are being harshly challenged. But as one who has seen many challenges over a long lifetime, I can assure you that personal faith and conviction are strengthened, not weakened, in adversity.
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It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.
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America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.
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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
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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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For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.
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Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
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But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth .
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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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Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.
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The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.
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It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy.
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My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government.
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To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.
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What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal.
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