Ronald Reagan Quotes - Page 15

• We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Presidential, Special

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.83, Humanix Books

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• We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.

  Ronald Reagan

  Economy, Results, Spending

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• Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Opportunity, Government, Productivity

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

  Ronald Reagan

  Thinking, Government, Custody

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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.

  Ronald Reagan

  United States, World, Economic

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.3, NewsMax Media, Inc.

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• Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Compassion, Rights, Government

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'

  Ronald Reagan

  Cat, Fog, Feet

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• Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

  Ronald Reagan

  Realizing, Profession, Resemblance

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• Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.

  Ronald Reagan

  Suicide, Gun, Average

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• I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Forever, Kind

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Democracy, Breaking Down

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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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

  Men, Scary, Muggers

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• Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life.

  Ronald Reagan

  Cancer, Two, White

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• I hope you're all Republicans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Bad Ass, Republican, Ass

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, Opportunity, America

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Abortion, Understanding

  "Ronald Reagan".

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• We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Years, Too Much

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

  Ronald Reagan

  Virtue, Economics, Budgets

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• They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

  Ronald Reagan

  Evil, Presidential, Focus

  Ronald Reagan's Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, www.reaganlibrary.gov. March 8, 1983.

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• Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Views, People

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, Humanix Books

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• I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Character, America

  Address to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, delivered 30 January 1984, Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• The Federal Reserve is answerable to no one.

  Ronald Reagan

  Federal Reserve, Reserves

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• Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Character, Mean

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• Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational Life, Purpose, Emptiness

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• Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.

  Ronald Reagan

  Gun, Thinking, Gun Control

  "Ronald Reagan".

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