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Liberty Quotes by Ronald Reagan

63 Liberty quotes by Ronald Reagan

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Reagan describes liberty as a torch that warms those who hold it high and burns those who try to snuff it out. He links widespread property ownership with personal freedom and says that individual liberty needs government kept under control. He also mentions that art thrives where liberty exists.

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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

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As government expands, liberty contracts.

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Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

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

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Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

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Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

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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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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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A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

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The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

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Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

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When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.

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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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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of…

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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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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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I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail.…

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The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty…

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I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and…

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Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the…

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Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution…

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Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace.…

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More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of…

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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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Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has…

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I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government…

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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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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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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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But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all…

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Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit…

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. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say:…

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Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot…

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When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a…

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“Liberty has never come from government,” Woodrow Wilson, one of FDR’s predecessors and another Democrat, said. “The history of liberty is the…

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Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom,…

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When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual…

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A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the…

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History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but…

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We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth…

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Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

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