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Our whole system of government is based on We the people, but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.

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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To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.
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I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.
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History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.
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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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I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)
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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
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Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation.
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We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much.
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Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work - work with us, not over us to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it foster productivity, not stifle it.
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I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
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By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it clear that they never had any intention of restoring one of the most elemental human rights the right to belong to a free trade union.
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I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.
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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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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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Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.
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I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.
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What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.
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Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.
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I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
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