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Politics Quotes by Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan jokes that the nine most terrifying words are “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” He links widespread property ownership to personal liberty. He also says taxes should not burden families struggling to pay bills. He also warns that politicians often only learn how to be political.

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Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

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

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The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.

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I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.

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People do not make wars; governments do.

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“governments don't produce economic growth people do.”

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I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

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Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal.

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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

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Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

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The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve…

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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

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I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.

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But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth .

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Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

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Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to…

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For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the…

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Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

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I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect…

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Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document…

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We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not…

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“I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of…

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The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it…

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[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well,…

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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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Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a…

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The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government.…

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We must remove government's smothering hand from where it does harm; we must seek to revitalize the proper functions of government. We…

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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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I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is…

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Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career…

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I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the…

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“I had a copy of the Soviet Constitution and I read it with great interest. And I saw all kinds of terms…

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Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

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Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

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Man is not free unless government is limited.

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I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

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If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

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... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

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... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

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Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation…

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You…

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.

The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America - our country is in…

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be…

The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges,…

Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot.…

A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the…

On Father's Day, we pay tribute to all in our society who have taken on the responsibilitie s and joys of fatherhood. Whether our…

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

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

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