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One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

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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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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Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.
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Freedom-loving people around the world must say . . . I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.
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As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will not surrender for it - now or ever.
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Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.
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It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.
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Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana.
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The NRA believes America's laws were made to be obeyed and that our Constitutional liberties are just as important today as 200 years ago. And by the way, the Constitution does not say Government shall decree the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution says 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'
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They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.
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There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
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Whether meeting with leaders and parents concerned about drugs in Bonn, Lisbon, or with the Holy Father at the Vatican, or doing a pretty fair flamenco in Madrid, I think Nancy's one of the best ambassadors America's ever had.
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Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.
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