Ronald Reagan Quotes About Politics
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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 favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
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I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
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Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.
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... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.
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Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal.
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I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people.
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The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.
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The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.
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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
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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 you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?
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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
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When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
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Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
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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 he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.
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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 were all on a diet.
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There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
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Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
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We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
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Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
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The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.
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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
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It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy.
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
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Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?
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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 in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
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I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment [limiting the presidency to two terms] was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him?
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When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.
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