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No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.
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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Ronald Wilson Reagan
Ronald W. Reagan
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There is no love like a mother’s - she who carries the child that God knits in the womb, she who nourishes and guides, she who teaches and inspires, she who gives of her heart and soul and self for the good and the happiness of her children and her family.
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Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.
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To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.
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Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.
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Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.
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Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.
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You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the jokes. Look at his record. He cut the taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we've ever known. I have taken heed of that because if he did that by doing nothing, maybe that's the answer.
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If it takes a bloodbath now let's get it over with.
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May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.
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Surround yourself with great people delegate authority get out of the way
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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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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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Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
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I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.
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Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
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Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
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I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.
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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
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