Ronald Reagan quotes - page 7

Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did. To see those, those monkeys from those African countries- damn them, they're still uncomfortable wearing shoes! (Ronald Reagan)
If I still have time, I might add, Mr. Trewhitt, I might add that it was Seneca or it was Cicero, I don't know which, that said, If it was not for the elders correcting the mistakes of the young, there would be no state. View quote
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The demography of happiness, in this study the government found out that young people are happier than old people, and they found out that people that earn more are happier than people that earn less, and they found out that well people are happier than sick people... It took $249,000 to find out that it's better to be rich, young and healthy than old, poor and sick. View quote
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You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done. View quote
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General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! View quote
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As government expands, liberty contracts. View quote
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The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. View quote
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I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority. View quote
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A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. View quote
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Let me offer lesson number one about America: All great change in America begins at the dinner table. So, tomorrow night in the kitchen I hope the talking begins. And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do. View quote
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The only way there could be war is if they start it; we're not going to start a war. (Ronald Reagan)
...there is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. View quote
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I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born. View quote
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A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. View quote
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They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer - not an easy answer - but simple. View quote
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America's future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts. It rests in the message of hope in songs of a man so many young Americans admire -- New Jersey's own, Bruce Springsteen. View quote
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God made all his creations in different colors. It would be pretty boring if we all looked the same. View quote
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Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. View quote
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Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence. View quote
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Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price. View quote
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Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. (Ronald Reagan)
You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. View quote
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Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas. View quote
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A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation. View quote
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Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment. View quote
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