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#1

“I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.”
― Ronald Reagan

#2

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”
― Ronald Reagan

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#3

“Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: liberty, scope-of-government

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#4

“The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: political, scope-of-government

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#5

“I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.”
― Ronald Regan

tags: congress, conservative, moses, ten-commandments

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#6

“Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives”
― Ronald Regan

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#7

“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

tags: growing-old

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#8

“Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: scope-of-government

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#9

“Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: leadership

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#10

“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: scope-of-government

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#11

“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.”
― Ronald Reagan

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#12

“We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
― Ronald Reagan

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#13

“You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: business, economy, taxes, taxing

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#14

“I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.”
― Ronald Reagan

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#15

“If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.”
― Ronald Reagan

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#16

“Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.”
― Ronald Reagan

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#17

“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”
― Ronald Reagan

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#18

“Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.”
― Ronald Reagan

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#19

“Since I came to the White House, I've gotten two hearing aids, had a colon operation, a prostate operation, skin cancer, and I've been shot...damn thing is, I've never felt better.”
― Ronald Reagan, Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches

tags: humor, operation

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#20

“If you think you can - you can!”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: self-empowerment

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#21

“Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.”
― Ronald Reagan

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#22

“While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.”
― Ronald Reagan

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#23

“I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.”
― Ronald Reagan

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#24

“A picture is worth 1,000 denials.”
― Ronald Reagan

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#25

“Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement. ”
― Ronald Reagan

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#26

“Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: government, temporary

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#27

“Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: keynesianism, social-programs, welfare

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#28

“Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.”
― Ronald Reagan, U.S.S.R.-U.S.A. Summit, Moscow, May 29-June 2, 1988

tags: cold-war

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#29

“I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties.”
― Ronald Reagan, Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches

tags: humor, nineties, president

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#30

“I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: ronald-reagan

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