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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"A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work."

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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."

Teacher School Kids
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"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

Realizing Profession Resemblance
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"I've always thought New Year's Day was an especially American tradition, full of the optimism and hope we're famous for in our daily lives -- an energy and confidence we call the American spirit. Perhaps because we know we control our own destiny, we believe deep down inside that working together we can make each new year better than the old."

New Year Believe Destiny
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"Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space, we will find liberation from tyranny, from scarcity, from ignorance and from war. We will find the means to protect this Earth and to nurture every human life, and to explore the universe. . . .This is our mission, this is our destiny."

War Mean Ignorance
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"Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren't becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we've always been a nation of doers."

Reading Book Effort
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"The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality."

Dream Perseverance Persistence
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"Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work - work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it."

Opportunity Government Sides
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"When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long."

Government Talking Long
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"You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between left or right. Well, I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down."

Wells Left
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"Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed."

Book Long Mind
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"Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher."

Would Be Cost Neglect
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"Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit."

Spirit Aspiration Humans
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"We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure."

Running Long Independence
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"I'd like to harness their youthful energy with a strap."

Energy Harness
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"Well, it [evolution] is a theory, it is a scientific theory only, and it has in recent years been challenged in the world of science and is not yet believed in the scientific community to be as infallible as it once was believed. But if it was going to be taught in the schools, then I think that also the biblical theory of creation, which is not a theory but the biblical story of creation, should also be taught."

School Science Biblical
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"One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans."

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

Fighting Winning Young
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