Ronald Reagan Quotes

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I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight, we have.

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Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.

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I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development.

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I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it.

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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?

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A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.

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Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.

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We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

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Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

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In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

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In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Isreal was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tyranny and unrest.

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No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

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Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.

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Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

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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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There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.

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We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

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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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I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

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For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

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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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The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.

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Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.

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

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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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