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Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. (Ronald Reagan)
Man is not free unless government is limited. View quote
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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. View quote
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Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement. View quote
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How can a president not be an actor? View quote
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I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. View quote
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Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's "bold new imaginative" program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his "State Socialism" and way before him it was "benevolent monarchy." View quote
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Prejudice is not a failing peculiar to one race, it can and does exist in people of every race and ethnic background. It takes individual effort to root it out of one's heart. In my case my father and mother saw that it never got a start. I shall be forever grateful to them. View quote
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I've been frustrated and angered by the attempts to paint me as a racist and as lacking in compassion for the poor. On the one subject I was raised by a mother and father who instilled in me and my brother a hatred for bigotry and prejudice, long before there was such a thing as a civil rights movement. As for the poor, we were poor in an era when there were no government programs to turn to. I'm well aware of how lucky I've been since and how good the Lord has been to me. View quote
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Not to the extent of throwing up my hands and saying, "Well, it's all over." No. I think whichever generation and at whatever time, when the time comes, the generation that is there, I think will have to go on doing what they believe is right. View quote
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What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U. S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies? I know this is a formidable, technical task, one that may not be accomplished before the end of this century. Yet, current technology has attained a level of sophistication where it's reasonable for us to begin this effort. It will take years, probably decades of effort on many fronts. There will be failures and setbacks, just as there will be successes and breakthroughs. And as we proceed, we must remain constant in preserving the nuclear deterrent and maintaining a solid capability for flexible response. But isn't it worth every investment necessary to free the world from the threat of nuclear war? We know it is. (Ronald Reagan)
I've spoken recently of the freedom fighters of Nicaragua. You know the truth about them. You know who they're fighting and why. They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong. View quote
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Let's close the place down and see if anybody notices. View quote
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We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. View quote
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If you're explaining, you're losing. View quote
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out. View quote
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We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. View quote
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I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom. View quote
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Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can. View quote
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It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available. View quote
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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement. (Ronald Reagan)
When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long. View quote
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There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. View quote
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No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting. View quote
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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. View quote
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Occupation: American President
Born: February 6, 1911
Died: June 5, 2004
Quotes count: 416
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