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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.

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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Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is Employee Stock Ownership Program, or ESOP.
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The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.
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I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.
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We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.
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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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No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
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Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.
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The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.
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Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.
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Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder
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Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?
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A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.
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If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
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We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.
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When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.
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If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage.
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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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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In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal America's is.
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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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