Ronald Reagan Quotes

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If we listen to our hearts, believe in ourselves, and pull together, nothing can stand in our way.

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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

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Someone asked me whether I was aware of all the people out there who were praying for the President. And I had to say, "Yes, I am. I've felt it. I believe in intercessory prayer." But I couldn't help but say to that questioner after he'd asked the question that - or at least say to them that if sometimes when he was praying he got a busy signal, it was just me in there ahead of him.

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Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

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We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.

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We're Americans, and we have a rendezvous with destiny... No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than Americans.

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When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.

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America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

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The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.

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I hope Americans will read and study the Bible in the coming year. It's my firm belief that the enduring values, as I say, presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation.

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The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.

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Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

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We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.

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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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For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

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I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

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By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.

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What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.

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Deficits, as I've often said, aren't caused by too little taxing, they're caused by too much spending. Presidents can't appropriate a dollar of tax payers money, only Congressmen can; and Congress is susceptible to all sorts of influences that have nothing to do with good government.

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May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.

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At the root of everything that we're trying to accomplish is the belief that America has a mission. We are a nation of freedom, living under God, believing all citizens must have the opportunity to grow, create wealth, and build a better life for those who follow. If we live up to those moral values, we can keep the American dream alive for our children and our grandchildren, and America will remain mankind's best hope.

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The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

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It would seem that not only is religion lacking in the schools - so is common sense. I wonder what a teacher is supposed to say if a kid asks about those four words on a dime - 'In God We Trust.' Or maybe that's why they aren't being taught how to read these days.

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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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May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here.

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Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more government largesse accompanied always by more government authority, less individual liberty, and ultimately, totalitarianism, always advanced as for our own good. The alternative is the dream conceived by our Founding Fathers, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society.

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Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

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The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.

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The price of freedom may be high, but never so costly as the loss of freedom.

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Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

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