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| I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service. |
Ronald Reagan |
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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 |
Ronald Reagan |
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| I've often wondered how some people in positions of this kind ... manage without having had any acting experience. |
Ronald Reagan |
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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 to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have it if he wants protection-the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya) |
Ronald Reagan |
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| To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. (Quoting Churchill) |
Ronald Reagan |
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| It's difficult to see that people are starving in this country because food isn't available.(1986) |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today. ... we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| I was alarmed at my doctor's report He said I was sound as a dollar. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere ... You can run but you can't hide. (On US pilots who captured four terrorists) |
Ronald Reagan |
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| We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted-because everyone would join that party. |
Ronald Reagan |
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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 new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission) |
Ronald Reagan |
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| This administration is totally colorblind. |
Ronald Reagan |
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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 of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| 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, subsidise it. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. |
Ronald Reagan |
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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. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| 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. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. (On dismissing 12,000 striking air traffic controllers) |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Someone must stand up to those who say, Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra) |
Ronald Reagan |
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| The distance between the present system and our proposal is like comparing the distance between a Model T and the space shuttle. And I should know I've seen both. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers. Go ahead-make my day. |
Ronald Reagan |
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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. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| I will veto again and again until spending is brought under control. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines) |
Ronald Reagan |
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| The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile) |
Ronald Reagan |
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| The freedom fighters of Nicaragua ... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| My fellow Americans I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. (Comment while testing a microphone before a broadcast 11 Aug 84) |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do We'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table. (To Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Canada) |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| 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. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Facts are stupid things. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. |
James Baldwin |
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| Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. |
James Baldwin |
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| Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up. |
James Baldwin |
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| The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. |
James Baldwin |
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| The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' |
Ken Konecki |
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| It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Where there is love there is life. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| You must be the change you wish to see in the world. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| I want freedom for the full expression on my personality. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| I think it would be a good idea. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been' |
John Greenleaf Whittier |
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| The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been. |
John Greenleaf Whittier |
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| No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here. |
John Greenleaf Whittier |
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