Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reaganwas an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Prior to his presidency, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975, following a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth6 February 1911
CountryUnited States of America
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It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. (October 27, 1964)
When you get there, the world is gone.
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without God, there is no virtue because there's no prompting of the conscience. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
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We think there is a parallel between the Federal involvement in education and the decline in quality over recent years.
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Why should we be frightened? No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than the living Americans, those Americans living in this land today.
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We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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We cannot stop at the foothills when Everest lies ahead.
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you get tired, sometimes, counting to 10 as a voice check and so forth.
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The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
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We're the party that wants to see an America in which people still can get rich
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You are right, ... We didn't have those things when we were young. We invented them.
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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.
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We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.'