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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"We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day."

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"The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either."

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"There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'"

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"Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free."

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"If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business"

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"I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years."

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"I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed."

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"There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones."

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"In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete."

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"We can look forward to the day when the free flow of trade, from the southern reaches of Tierra del Fuego to the northern outposts of the Arctic Circle, unites the people of the Western Hemisphere in a bond of mutually beneficial exchange, when all borders become what the U.S.-Canadian border so long has been: a meeting place, rather than a dividing line."

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"Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. ... We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don't know where to look. ... Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."

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"Are you better off than you were four years ago? One of my favorite quotes Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores ... Is there more or less unemployment?"

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"Human beings are not animals, and I do not want to see sex and sexual differences treated as casually and amorally as dogs and other beasts treat them. I believe this could happen under the ERA."

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"I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular threat?"

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"The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it."

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"If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip"

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"Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look."

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