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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last -- but eat you he will.
-Ronald Reagan
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Actors, Acting
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Someplace along the line the audience discovered you. In my case it was playing the Gipper.
-Ronald Reagan
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America
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It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
-Ronald Reagan
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Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.
-Ronald Reagan
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Assassination
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Honey, I forgot to duck.
-Ronald Reagan
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Bureaucracy
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
-Ronald Reagan
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Change
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Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in.
-Ronald Reagan
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Character
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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
-Ronald Reagan
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Conservation
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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
-Ronald Reagan
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Differences
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More than 20 years ago, President Kennedy defined an approach that is as valid today as when he announced it. So let us not be blind to our differences,'' he said, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.''Well, those differences are differences in governmental structure and philosophy. The common interests have to do with the things of everyday life for people everywhere. Just suppose with me for a moment that an Ivan and an Anya could find themselves, oh, say, in a waiting room, or sharing a shelter from the rain or a storm with a Jim and Sally, and there was no language barrier to keep them from getting acquainted. Would they then debate the differences between their respective governments? Or would they find themselves comparing notes about their children and what each other did for a living?Before they parted company, they would probably have touched on ambitions and hobbies and what they wanted for their children and problems of making ends meet. And as they went their separate ways, maybe Anya would be saying to Ivan, Wasn't she nice? She also teaches music.'' Or Jim would be telling Sally what Ivan did or didn't like about his boss. They might even have decided they were all going to get together for dinner some evening soon. Above all, they would have proven that people don't make wars.People want to raise their children in a world without fear and without war. They want to have some of the good things over and above bare subsistence that make life worth living. They want to work at some craft, trade, or profession that gives them satisfaction and a sense of worth. Their common interests cross all borders.
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/11684a.htm
-Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation and Other Countries on United States-Soviet Relations, January 16, 1984
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Drugs
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Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
-Ronald Reagan
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Economics
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We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
-Ronald Reagan
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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.
-Ronald Reagan
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Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
-Ronald Reagan
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Experience
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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
-Ronald Reagan
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Freedom
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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
-Ronald Reagan
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We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world
-Ronald Reagan, Gubernatorial Inaugural Address, January 5, 1967
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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.
-Ronald Reagan
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Gambling (Gaming)
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I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.
-Ronald Reagan
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Goals
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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out
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Government
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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
-Ronald Reagan
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
-Ronald Reagan
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Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
-Ronald Reagan
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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
-Ronald Reagan
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Help
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We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping 107 We spent $146 billion. With that money, we bought a 2-million-dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.
-Ronald Reagan
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Humanity
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In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
the last portion of this quote is inscribed on his gravestonehttp://www.planbproductions.com/postnobills/reagan1.html
-Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Library Opening Ceremonies
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Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?
-Ronald Reagan
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Inflation
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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
-Ronald Reagan
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Information
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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
-Ronald Reagan
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Justice
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We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!
-Ronald Reagan
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Life
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If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.I've often wondered at how lives are shaped by what seem like small and inconsequential events, how an apparently random turn in the road can lead you a long way from where you intended to go--and a long way from wherever you expected to go. For me, the first of these turns occurred in the summer of 1932, in the abyss of the Depression.
-Ronald Reagan, An American Life
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Love
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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
-Ronald Reagan
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Management
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
-Ronald Reagan
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Morals
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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
-Ronald Reagan
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Past, the
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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
-Ronald Reagan
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Politics
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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.
-Ronald Reagan
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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
-Ronald Reagan
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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
-Ronald Reagan
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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
-Ronald Reagan
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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.
-Ronald Reagan
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Pollution
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Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
-Ronald Reagan
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Poverty
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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
-Ronald Reagan
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Presidency
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But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
-Ronald Reagan
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Responsibility
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
-Ronald Reagan
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Revolution
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You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing is worth dying for, when did this begin...? ...Should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots of Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world?
-Ronald Reagan
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Security
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You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream-the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.
-Ronald Reagan
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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
-Ronald Reagan
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Sleep
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No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
-Ronald Reagan
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Statistics
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
-Ronald Reagan
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Taxation
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The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
-Ronald Reagan
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War
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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
-Ronald Reagan
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So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride -- the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.
-Ronald Reagan
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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/11684a.htm
-Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation and Other Countries on United States-Soviet Relations, January 16, 1984
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Will, Willpower
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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. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
-Ronald Reagan
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Work
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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
-Ronald Reagan
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Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
-Ronald Reagan
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World
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We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
-Ronald Reagan
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Books by and about Ronald Reagan
