Rights Quotes by Ronald Reagan

24 Rights quotes by Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan’s statements on rights echo the optimism of a leader who believed in limited government and personal responsibility. His words strike a balance between patriotism and individual empowerment.

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I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

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Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes…

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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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Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of…

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They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating…

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No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

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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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Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close…

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The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or…

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The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle…

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By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it…

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Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that…

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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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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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Our goals are the same as those of the U.N.'s founders, who sought to replace a world at war with one where…

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We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned…

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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 is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for…

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Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the…

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

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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…

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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…

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

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

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

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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,…

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Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

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

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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…

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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…

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

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