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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.

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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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Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt.
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The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not necessarily the biggest in size, or the wealthiest in natural resources. No, what unites them all is their willingness to believe in the magic of the marketplace.
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We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.
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History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.
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There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.
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God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many would condone the taking of innocent life. We expect Him to protect us in a crisis, but turn away from Him too often in our day-to-day living. I wonder if He isn't waiting for us to wake up.
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But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
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The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.
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We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn't end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds.
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Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people
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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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The most confident person in any transaction ALWAYS introduces themselves first.
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Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.
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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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Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.
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I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.
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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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Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.
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If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
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Through you, we feel as giants, once again.
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