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When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.
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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Well I've said it before and I'll say it again America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead.
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Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to the treasury of human knowledge, accumulated and refined through the ages it includes technical and vocational training as well as instruction in science, higher mathematics, and humane letters.
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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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A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.
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If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)
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The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems it subsidizes them.
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By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society. We believed then and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.
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Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.
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We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.
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Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.
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Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.
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I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.
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I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land...Any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here.
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Well, my head's full of questions My temp'rature's risin' fast Well, I'm lookin' for some answers But I don't know who to ask
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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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For one, we very much need in any immigration bill - we need protection for people who are in this country and who have not become citizens, for example, that they are protected and legitimized and given permanent residency here. And we want to see some things of that kind added to the immigration bill.
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The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.
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Perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.
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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 have every right to dream heroic dreams.
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