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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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Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used.
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If you want more of something, subsidize it if you want less of something, tax it.
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No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.
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There you go again. When I opposed Medicare, there was another piece of legislation meeting the same problem before the Congress. I happened to favor the other piece of legislation and thought that it would be better for the senior citizens to provide better care than the one that was finally passed.
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We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.
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You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.
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They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)
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We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won
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Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?
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Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first Pilgrims and pioneers. And as Americans wander through these forests, climb these mountains, they will sense the love and majesty of the Creator of all of that.
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Our goals are the same as those of the U.N.'s founders, who sought to replace a world at war with one where the rule of law would prevail, where human rights were honored, where development would blossom, where conflict would give way to freedom from violence.
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You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.
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A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.
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To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.
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The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
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We desire peace. But peace is a goal, not a policy. Lasting peace is what we hope for at the end of our journey. It doesn't describe the steps we must take nor the paths we should follow to reach that goal.
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We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.
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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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I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.
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Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.
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