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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
40th
president
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Abortion is advocated only
by persons who have themselves been born.
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Entrepreneurs and their
small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the
United States.
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Freedom is never more than
one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the
bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do
the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and
our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men
were free.
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How do you tell a communist?
Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an
anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
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I don't believe in a
government that protects us from ourselves.
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I know in my heart that man
is good.
That what is right will always eventually triumph.
And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
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If you're afraid of the
future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are
ready to move again.
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Politics is not a bad
profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself
you can always write a book.
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Politics is 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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The best minds are not in
government. If any were, business would hire them away.
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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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The nine most terrifying
words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to
help.'
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The ultimate determinant in
the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test
of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the
beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
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There are no great limits to
growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and
wonder.
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To sit back hoping that
someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the
crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will.
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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.
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America represents something
universal in the human spirit. I received a letter not long ago from a man
who said, 'You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You
can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in
Germany or Turkey, and you won't become a German or a Turk.' But then he
added, 'Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and
become an American.'
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Ronald Reagan, Campaign
rally for Vice President Bush, San Diego, November 7, 1988
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Some people go their whole
life wondering if they ever made a difference. Marines don’t have that problem.
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“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one
generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be
fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once
to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known
it again.” ~ Ronald Reagan, from his first inaugural speech as governor of
California, January 5, 1967
Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790)
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There is no kind of
dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall
than that of defrauding the government.
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Those who would give up
essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety.
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He that is of the opinion
money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
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He that falls in love with
himself will have no rivals.
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Hide not your talents, they for
use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
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Search others for their
virtues, thyself for thy vices.
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Genius without education is
like silver in the mine.
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An investment in knowledge
always pays the best interest.
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Be slow in choosing a
friend, slower in changing.
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He that is good for making
excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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God heals, and the doctor
takes the fees.
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Glass, china, and reputation
are easily cracked, and never well mended.
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How many observe Christ's
birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than
Commandments.
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To the generous mind the
heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
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Necessity never made a good
bargain.
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Experience is a dear
teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
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In rivers and bad
governments, the lightest things swim at the top.
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Any fool can criticize,
condemn and complain and most fools do.
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They that will not be
counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on
the knuckles.
Thomas
Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Do not bite at the bait of
pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Honesty is the first chapter
of the book of wisdom.
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I believe that banking institutions
are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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In matters of style, swim
with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Never spend your money
before you have it.
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Never trouble another for
what you can do for yourself.
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The man who reads nothing at
all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The spirit of resistance to
government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be
kept alive.
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The will of the people is
the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free
expression should be our first object.
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We in America do not have government
by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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I believe that banking
institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the
American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their
currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations
that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property
until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to
the people, to whom it properly belongs.
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I have the consolation of
having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of
retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
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No government ought to be
without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.
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An honest man can feel no
pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
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I would rather be exposed to
the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too
small a degree of it.
Eugene McCarthy (1916 -
2005)
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Being in politics is like
being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game,
and dumb enough to think it's important.
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It is dangerous for a
national candidate to say things that people might remember.
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The only thing that saves us
from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the
greatest threat to liberty.
Mother Teresa
(1910 - 1997)
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God doesn't require us to
succeed; he only requires that you try.
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I know God will not give me
anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
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Kind words can be short and
easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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Let no one ever come to you
without leaving better and happier.
Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
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Anyone who isn't confused
really doesn't understand the situation.
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Just because your voice
reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it
reached only to the end of the bar.
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Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
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The obscure we see
eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
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When the politicians
complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear
that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that
not all the performers are well trained.
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Everyone is a prisoner of
his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
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