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.

Born
February 6, 1911
Died
June 5, 2004
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"These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers."

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"Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do."

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"I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers."

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"You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today."

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"You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard."

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"I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment [limiting the presidency to two terms] was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him?"

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"In the 38th chapter of Ezekiel, it says that the land of Israel will come under attack by the armies of the ungodly nations, and it says that Libya will be among them. Do you understand the significance of that? Libya has now gone Communist, and that's a sign that the day of Armageddon isn't far off."

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"We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years."

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"There is nothing wrong with America that Americans can't fix."

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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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"When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far."

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"It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized."

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"It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism."

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"Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world."

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"You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind."

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"Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill."

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