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In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.
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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Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.
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In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.
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You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.
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Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.
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For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity, the establishment of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery.
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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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If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.
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Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.
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The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and so many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution 165 authorized and requested the President to designate the year 1983 as the 'Year of the Bible.'
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We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.
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I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.
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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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What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal.
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Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.
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[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House
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One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.
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There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war. It's to be prepared for peace. There's a sign over the entrance to the Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state, and that sign says it all: 'Peace is our profession'.
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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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The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.
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Respect for human rights is not social work it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.
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