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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We don't have an option of living with inflation and its attendant tragedy. We have an alternative, and that is the program for economic recovery. True, it'll take time for the favorable effects of our program to be felt. So, we must begin now. The people are watching and waiting. They don't demand miracles. They do expect us to act. Let us act together.
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Four years ago we said we would invigorate our economy by giving people greater freedom and incentives to take risks and letting them keep more of what they earned. We did what we promised, and a great industrial giant is reborn.
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If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what's at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation.
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I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.
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Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.
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There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.
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Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with thethings that move us toward progress and peace.
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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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The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.
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the Berlin Wall came down, the Evil Empire collapsed, and the cause of liberty prevailed in the world.
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I know you receive many letters like this, and I recognize that over time they must come to seem fairly routine, ... Please understand, however, that my years in your service will always be very special to me. The inspiration you have given me will burn brightly in my heart long after I have left the lights of the White House behind.
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I know you have been critically looking at the mores and customs of the past and questioning their value. Every generation does that. But don't discard the time-tested values upon which civilization has been built just because they are old.
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I hope you're all Republicans. (To surgeons as he entered the operating room, March 30, 1981.)
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I'm not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.