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Now, I happen to be an optimist.

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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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One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all.
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When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.
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A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.
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The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.
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Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?
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If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.
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For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God
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I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development.
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The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.
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There is nothing wrong with America that Americans can't fix.
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Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.
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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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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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Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.
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We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that granted to it by the people It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.
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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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Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management. This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government.
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If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
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I don't know why anyone would want to study the expansion of the universe.
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