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Ronald Reagan Quotes

«Many Americans today, just as they did 200 years ago, feel burdened, stifled, and sometimes even oppressed by government that has grown too large, too bureaucratic, too wasteful, too unresponsive, too uncaring about people and their problems. I believe we can embark on a new age of reform in this country and an era of national renewal, an era that will reorder the relationship between citizen and government, that will make government again responsive to people, that will revitalize the values of family, work, and neighborhood and that will restore our private and independent social institutions.»
«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.»
«Someplace along the line the audience discovered you. In my case it was playing the Gipper.»
«To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.»
«Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking [and] now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.»
«I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964»
«It (Unemployment Insurance) provides prepaid vacations for a segment of our country which has made it a way of life»
«We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.»
Author: Ronald Reagan (President) | Keywords: innocents
«If you've seen one redwood tree, you've seen them all»
Author: Ronald Reagan (President) | Keywords: redwood, redwoods, seen, Tree
«The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.»