Ronald Reagan quotes - page 5

Back in 1927, an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said that the American people would never vote for socialism but he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program. (Ronald Reagan)
As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the "quality of life" ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future. View quote
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We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others. View quote
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I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day. View quote
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We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions. View quote
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Until now has there ever been a time in which so many of the prophecies are coming together? There have been times in the past when people thought the end of the world was coming, and so forth, but never anything like this. View quote
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I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism. View quote
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There you go again. When I opposed Medicare, there was another piece of legislation meeting the same problem before the Congress. I happened to favor the other piece of legislation and thought that it would be better for the senior citizens to provide better care than the one that was finally passed. View quote
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You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy. View quote
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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. View quote
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These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war. (Ronald Reagan)
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant it's just that they know so much that isn't so. View quote
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Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time." View quote
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One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all. View quote
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The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket. View quote
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If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O! View quote
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Intelligence reports say he - Castro - is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying. View quote
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So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride, the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil. View quote
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Well I've said it before and I'll say it again - America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead. View quote
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Liberals fought poverty and poverty won. View quote
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I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other. (April 11, 1984) (Ronald Reagan)
Trust, but verify. View quote
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Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God. View quote
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We've done our part. And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan revolution, the men and women across America who for 8 years did the work that brought America back. My friends We did it. We weren't just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger, we made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all. (Farewell Address to the Nation, January 20th, 1989) View quote
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We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.' View quote
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