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Funny Quotes by Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan’s humor often mixes politics with exaggeration. He jokes that liberals aren’t smart, that a single picture can hide a thousand denials, and that fascism helped shape the New Deal. The lines play with big ideas in a light, tongue‑in‑cheek way.

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One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

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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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Now, I happen to be an optimist.

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Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal.

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The future belongs to the free.

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There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

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You and I have a rendevous with destiny.

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If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip

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I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.

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A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.

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

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Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.

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Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

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I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

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We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry every night. Well, that was probably true. They…

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History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a…

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We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They…

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Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect…

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You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between left or right. Well, I'd like to suggest there is no…

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I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during…

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I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to…

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Until now has there ever been a time in which so many of the prophecies are coming together? There have been times…

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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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Many Americans today, just as they did 200 years ago, feel burdened, stifled, and sometimes even oppressed by government that has grown…

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Please assure me that you are all Republicans.

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America's best days are yet to come.

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A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

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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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I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

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They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country.

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

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We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

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

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I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

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When youre up to your armpits in alligators, its hard to remember to drain the swamp.

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Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

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Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.

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There are only two things that the liberals don't understand: the things that change and the things that don't.

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