Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Politician, Actor

Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States, known for his leadership during the Cold War and his advocacy for conservative economic policies.

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Born
February 6, 1911
Died
June 5, 2004
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"There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity."

Two People Ceilings
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"Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should. Happy Fourth of July."

Men Rights July
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"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose."

Military War Winning
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"I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources."

Wise Strong Believe
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"My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights"

Rights Government Land
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"I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day; for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer."

Prayer Believe Grateful
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"I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast"

Funny Weed Marijuana
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"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough."

Leadership Being Strong Determination
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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."

Courage Simple Answers
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"If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer."

Education Children Agency
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"In 1992, the federal Government actually issued more work authorizations to immigrants and temporary foreign workers than the net number of new jobs created by our economy. Something is fundamentally wrong when we have millions of American citizens and legal residents begging for jobs, and yet we are admitting thousands and thousands of immigrants a year with virtually no consideration to our employment needs or their employment skills."

Jobs Government Years
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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."

Dream Children Believe
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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."

Country Pluralism Is Presidential
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"The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution."

Taken Government People
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"The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government tyranny. . . But now we're told our children have no right to pray in school. Nonsense. The pendulum has swung too far toward intolerance against genuine religious freedom. It is time to redress the balance."

Religious Children School
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"You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes."

Business Pay Taxes
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"The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism."

Heart Soul Libertarian
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"Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having."

Education Mean Exercise
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"A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers."

Reading Matter Appeasement
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