Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Ronald Reagan Quotes Click here for Ronald Reagan books, DVDs "Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." "Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence." "No one who lived through the Great Depression can ever look upon an unemployed person with anything but compassion." "A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his." "It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work -- work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. This Administration's objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy. " "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." "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." "I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street." "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 those nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete." "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting." "Government growing beyond our consent had become a lumbering giant, slamming shut the gates of opportunity, threatening to crush the very roots of our freedom. What brought America back? The American people brought us back -- with quiet courage and common sense; with undying faith that in this nation under God the future will be ours, for the future belongs to the free." "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." "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." "I now begin the journey that will
lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be
a bright dawn ahead."
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