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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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Books by and about Ronald Reagan