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We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.

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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Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.
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Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.
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A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.
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I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.
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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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I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.
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I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.
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Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism
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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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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.
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The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.
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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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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
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I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
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In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
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