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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"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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"So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely to declare 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, good and evil."

Struggle Pride Race
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"The despicable North Korean attack in Rangoon deprived us of trusted advisers and friends. So many of those who died had won admirers in America as they studied with us or guided us with their counsel. I personally recall the wisdom and composure of Foreign Minister Lee, with whom I met in Washington just a few short months ago. To the families and countrymen of all those who were lost, America expresses its deep sorrow."

Korea Usa America
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"We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous. There are threats now to our freedom, indeed to our very existence, that other generations could never even have imagined. There is first the threat of global war. No president, no Congress, no prime minister, no parliament can spend a day entirely free of this threat. If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly."

War Technology President
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"Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level."

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"The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book."

Family Book Reading
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"Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid."

Children Men People
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"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice."

Funny Country Sleep
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"Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?"

Government Doe Fruit
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"We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent."

Play World Politics
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"We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey."

Mean Law Citizens
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"Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no."

Virtue Economics Budgets
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"Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us."

Government Desire Helping
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"A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx."

Socialist
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"The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray"

People Purpose Constitution
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"The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him."

Government Citizens Return
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"[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world."

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"Don't be afraid to see what you see."

Politics
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