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Freedom Quotes by Ronald Reagan

168 Freedom quotes by Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan says that owning property helps people feel free and responsible. He says a wall cannot hold back freedom, faith, or truth, and that government often creates problems instead of fixing them. He also compares liberty to a torch that warms friends and burns those who try to snuff it out.

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The future belongs to the free.

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As government expands, liberty contracts.

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“Freedom is not free”

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Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

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Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

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Man is not free unless government is limited.

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

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The price of freedom may be high, but never so costly as the loss of freedom.

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Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

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We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom.

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My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.

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Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

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I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.

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I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of…

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Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.

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We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

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We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that…

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To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.

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These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind…

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We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its…

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Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles,…

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We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core…

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In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to…

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We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world…

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I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the…

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Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit…

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The people of Central America - and, in a broader sense, the entire developing world - need to know first-hand that freedom…

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Great nations which fail to meet their responsibilities are consigned to the dustbin of history. We grew from that small, weak republic…

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Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism,…

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“The miracle of life is given by One greater than ourselves, but once given, each life is ours to nurture and preserve,…

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Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but…

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We must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral…

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The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe…

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Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless…

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Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.

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Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

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A people free to choose will always choose peace.

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Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

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Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

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Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.

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Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

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There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

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Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.