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Individual Quotes by Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan talks about the power of personal freedom. He warns that too much government control can choke liberty and that markets let people decide better than central planners. He also believes that peace and progress rest on protecting each individual's rights.

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With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

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It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.

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Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

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As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going…

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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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Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

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With freedom comes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual.

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The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.

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...100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt...all individual income tax revenues are gone before one…

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You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then,…

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We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth…

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My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation…

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[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples…

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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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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 opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of…

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f you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer…

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All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual.…

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If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people…

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For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present.…

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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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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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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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As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we should reflect on the full meaning of this day as we enjoy the fellowship that is so…

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I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive…

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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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We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people…

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Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.

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Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual.

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Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The…

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The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

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For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and…

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You get to know people as individuals. The dreams of people may differ, but everybody wants their dreams to come true. And…

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I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the…

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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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He will long be remembered as one of the great Christian thinkers of our century, with a childlike faith and a profound…

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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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Our system freed the individual genius of man. Released him to fly as high & as far as his own talent &…

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By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual…

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