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Time Quotes by Ronald Reagan

72 Time quotes by Ronald Reagan

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A line jokes about being woken up even in the middle of a Cabinet meeting, highlighting a restless dedication to duty. Another quote reflects on learning from mistakes as you grow older, suggesting that perspective comes with age. A final thought urges a nation to act for the future, saying we must do everything we can while remembering the role of people over government.

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The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.

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The future belongs to the free.

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I don't have too much time for fiction.

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No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

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The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find…

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I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

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I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him.

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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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Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.

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I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the…

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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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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even…

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Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will…

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We must reject the idea that every time a laws broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to…

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When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours…

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We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved…

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I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the…

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For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of…

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We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its…

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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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My friends, we did it. We weren't just marking time, we made a difference. We made (America) stronger - we made (America)…

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I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers...…

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The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly…

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[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values…

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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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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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We have God's promise that what we give will be given back many times over, so let us go forth from here…

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“They tell us we must learn to live with less, and teach our children that their lives will be less full and…

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“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been…

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Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and…

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Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will…

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It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, We…

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The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.

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It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

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Her many achievements will be appreciated more as time goes on.

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The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

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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.

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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

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There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

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We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our…

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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.

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Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

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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…

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.