Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reaganwas an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Prior to his presidency, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975, following a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth6 February 1911
CountryUnited States of America
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My years in your service will always be very special to me. The inspiration you have given me will burn brightly in my heart long after I have left the lights of the White House behind.
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They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.
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It's time we reduced the federal budget and left the family budget alone.
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He will be remembered not only as a pioneer in his time, but as a dominant figure in world history,
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Someone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government will fall. In a monarchy, it is affection and respect for the royal family. If that is lost the monarch is lost. In a dictatorship, it is fear. If the people stop fearing the dictator he'll lose power. In a representative government such as ours, it is virtue. If virtue goes, the government fails. Are we choosing paths that are politically expedient and morally questionable? Are we in truth losing our virtue? . . . If so, we may be nearer the dustbin of history than we realize.
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I hope you're all Republicans. (To surgeons as he entered the operating room, March 30, 1981.)
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Our Constitution is to be celebrated not for being old, but for being young.
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I urged the Soviet leader, Mr. Gorbachev, to send a new signal of openness to the world by tearing down that wall.
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A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
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There is today in the United States as much forest as there was when Washington was at Valley Forge
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The United States is unique because we are an empire of ideals.
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Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.
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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.