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Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.
It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people.
Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.
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Ronald Reagan
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1/5/1967
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Other Great Quotes By Ronald Reagan
"The scales of criminal justice are still tilted toward protecting the rights of criminals. I believe it's high time we restore a proper balance and start doing more to protect our law-abiding citizens"
3/5/1984
"Let us cut through the fog for a moment. The answer to a government that's too big is to stop feeding its growth."
4/28/1981
"As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it; we will never surrender for it, now or ever."
1/20/1981
"As I said in my first Inaugural Address, "If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on Earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before." The central role of government must be to nurture this genius, not to shackle it in a morass of regulations or to tax away the incentives for innovation"
January 10, 1989
9/24/1982
“I believe common sense tells us we don't have an education problem because we're not spending enough, we have an education problem because we're not getting our money's worth for what we spend.”
7/15/1983
"As some of you know, we've had our headaches lately. The big spenders in the Congress are at it again - present company not included in those. They've been inventing their miracle cures for which there are no known diseases."
10/4/1982
"My optimism comes not just from my strong faith in God, but from my strong and enduring faith in man."
11/4/1991
“"The likelihood of peace is not enhanced by weakness or gestures of goodwill to tyrants."
9/27/1983
“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
1/20/1981
"Only through strength can we maintain peace and secure freedom and prosperity for ourselves and all free nations"
Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate Transmitting the Annual Economic Report of the President, January 10, 1989
“Balance the budget by bringing to heel a federal establishment which has taken too much power from the states, too much liberty with the Constitution, and too much money from the people.”
7/19/1982
"Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire post-war period, contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development."
9/29/1981
"Listen carefully when you hear screeching accusations about fairness. Just below the surface, you'll hear an appeal to greed and envy totally inconsistent with the American spirit."
2/20/1984
“We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and, ultimately, human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down.”
9/29/1981
"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
3/15/1982
"Freedom, it has been said, makes people selfish and materialistic, but Americans are one of the most religious peoples on earth. Because they know that liberty, just as life itself, is not earned but a gift from God, they seek to share that gift with the world."
5/31/1988
"To revitalize the nation, we must stimulate small business growth and opportunity. Small business accounts for over 60 percent of our jobs, half our business output, and at least half of the innovations that keep American industry strong."
3/23/1981
"Freedom is America's core. We must never deny it nor forsake it."
11/14/1985
“We must be staunch in our conviction that freedom is not the sole prerogative of a lucky few, but the inalienable and universal right of all human beings.”
6/8/1982
"You see, we can either have an economy that puts the private citizen at the center -- the consumer, the worker, the entrepreneur -- and lets each individual be the judge of what to buy or sell, where to work, where to invest, and what to create. Or we can put the government at the center of the economy and let the bureaucrats and politicians call the balls and strikes and decide who's out of business, or who will get the big contract and be home free."
6/29/1988
“Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.”
1/21/1985
“One definition of an economist is somebody who sees something happen in practice and wonders if it will work in theory.”
3/13/1987
"The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government."
3/11/1981
"Some may try and tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning, and every sunset is merely the latest milestone on a voyage that never ends. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming."
1/13/1993
“Our Founding Fathers fought not only for our political rights but also to secure the economic freedoms without which these political freedoms are no more than a shadow.”
10/22/1986
“The United States is a natural athlete. We are a nation that finds change and innovation to be a tonic”
10/28/1989
“The war on poverty created a new upper-middle class of bureaucrats that found they had a fine career as long as they could keep enough needy people there to justify their existence.”
9/9/1982
“When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group: "We the people."”
4/28/1981
“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.”
1/20/1981
“Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.”
7/31/1981
“The people of Poland, are giving us an imperishable example of courage and devotion to the values of freedom in the face of relentless opposition . . . The torch of liberty is hot. It warms those who hold it high. It burns those who try to extinguish it.”
12/17/1981
“I'm afraid that I have to confess to you that one of the sins of government, and one with which we must deal and never be able to be completely successful with, and this includes our own government, is that the bureaucracy once created has one fundamental rule above all others: Preserve the bureaucracy.”
6/1/1988
"We know that many individuals have valuable contributions to make well beyond 70 years of age, and they should have the opportunity to do so if they desire."
4/2/1982
“America remains a unique achievement for human dignity on a scale unequaled anywhere in the world.”
3/23/1982
“Grenada, we were told, was a friendly island paradise for tourism. Well, it wasn't. It was a Soviet-Cuban colony, being readied as a major military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy. We got there just in time.”
10/27/1983
“Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.”
4/29/1982
“the ten most dangerous words in the English language are, "Hi, I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."”
7/28/1988
“Lenient judges are only lenient on crooks; they're very hard on society.”
3/5/1984
“If we could just keep remembering that Moses brought down from the mountain the Ten Commandments, not ten suggestions - and if those of us who live for the Lord could remember that He wants us to love our Lord and our neighbor, then there's no limit to the problems we could solve or the mountains we could climb together as a mighty force for good.”
5/6/1983
“We have to come to grips with the fact that today's terrorists are better armed and financed, they are more sophisticated, they are possessed by a fanatical intensity that individuals of a democratic society can only barely comprehend.”
12/27/1983
“The willingness of our citizens to give freely and unselfishly of themselves, even their lives, in defense of our democratic principles, gives this great Nation continued strength and vitality.”
10/26/1981
“The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”
1/27/1987
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
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8/15/1986
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The weakness in this country for too many years has been our insistence on carving an ever-increasing number of slides from a shrinking economic pie. Our policies have concentrated on rationing scarcity rather than creating plenty. As a result, our economy has stagnated. But those days are ending.
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RONALD REAGAN
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11/29/1982
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I think the people have told us they want to see America return to the can-do spirit that made this country an industrial and economic giant.
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RONALD REAGAN
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5/11/1981
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We fear the government may be powerful enough to destroy families; we know that it is not powerful enough to replace them.
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RONALD REAGAN
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2/6/1977
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What is euphemistically called government-corporate partnership is just government coercion, political favoritism, collectivist industrial policy, and old-fashioned federal boondoggles nicely wrapped up in a bright colored ribbon. And it doesn't work.
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RONALD REAGAN
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6/29/1988
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Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it
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RONALD REAGAN
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1/20/1981
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An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count.
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RONALD REAGAN
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12/12/1983
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There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
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RONALD REAGAN
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9/20/1983
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When the government takes away incentives to work and save, the economy goes flat - millions are thrown out of work and government revenues plunge.
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RONALD REAGAN
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2/4/1985
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No matter what your background, no matter how low your station in life, there must be no limit on your ability to reach for the stars, to go as far as your God-given talents will take you.
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RONALD REAGAN
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12/2/1982
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It is up to us, however we may disagree on policies, to work together for progress and humanity so that our grandchildren, when they look back on us, can truly say that we not only preserved the flame of freedom, but cast its warmth and light further than those who came before us.
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RONALD REAGAN
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3/23/1982
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Too many in Washington and across the country still believe that we can raise more revenue from the economy by making it more expensive to work, save and invest in the economy. We can't repeal human nature.
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RONALD REAGAN
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1/22/1983
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