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Ronald Reagan
American
President
Born:
Feb 6
,
1911
Died:
Jun 5
,
2004
Because
Free
Government
People
Will
You
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Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald Reagan
Welfare
Own
Possible
Purpose
Existence
As Far As
Far
Should
Eliminate
Need
One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald Reagan
Government
Crime
Pay
Way
Run
Would
Would-Be
One-Way
Make
Sure
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan
Politics
Man
Inflation
Robber
Armed
Deadly
Hit
Frightening
Violent
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan
Work
Service
Government
Taxpayer
Civil
Examination
Civil Service
Someone
Federal
Federal Government
Take
Who
Works
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
Ronald Reagan
You
Generation
Opportunities
Will
Further
Beyond
Known
Because
Than
Goes
Anything
Shoulders
Stands
Each
Each Generation
Ever
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
Government
Best
Business
Intelligence
Minds
Would
Steal
Were
Any
Them
Away
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Ronald Reagan
Money
Philanthropist
Able
Cat
Never
Democratic
Understand
Been
Contributor
Same
Republican
Why
Amount
Fat
Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression.
Ronald Reagan
Today
Oppression
East
Civilization
Poland
Doing
West
Being
Center
European
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan
Future
Past
Live
Inspiration
Take
Like
Most
American
While
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan
Government
Democracy
Man
Worth
Honorable
Most
Because
Form
Dying
Ever
Deeply
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Ronald Reagan
Problems
Solve
Only
Tend
Governments
Them
Rearrange
For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.
Ronald Reagan
Justice
Peace
People
World
Free
Own
Destiny
All People
Determine
Toward
Sake
Move
Which
Us
Let Us
Last
I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
Ronald Reagan
Me
Coffee
Lunch
Find
Drink
Drink Coffee
Never
Afternoon
Awake
Keeps
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
Great
Peace
World
Cause
Country
Community
World Peace
Gave
Our
Those
Weapons
Give
Obsolete
Talents
Rendering
Call
Scientific
Turn
Mankind
Us
Means
Who
Now
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
Ronald Reagan
Life
Work
Work Hard
Win
Mind
Lose
Our
Philosophy
Our Lives
Out
Somehow
Never
Toward
Make
Make Up
Goal
Up
Going
Then
Hard
Lives
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan
Day
School
President
Secret
Top
High
High School
Classified
Had
Advantages
Grades
Being
After
Elected
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Ronald Reagan
Today
Government
You
Better
Invent
Along
Mouse
Mousetrap
People do not make wars; governments do.
Ronald Reagan
People
Make
Governments
Wars
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
Ronald Reagan
Political
Party
Other
Everybody
State
Would
Join
Come
Another
Because
Still
Existence
Political Party
Soviet
Soviet Union
Union
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
Ronald Reagan
Rule
Budget
Come
Balancing
Commandments
Closer
The Golden Rule
Golden
Golden Rule
Might
Us
Lived
Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.
Ronald Reagan
Today
Democracy
Enemies
Easily
Instruments
Because
Refined
Optimism
Repression
Less
Vigorous
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Ronald Reagan
Me
College
More
Football
Years
Offered
Going
Play
Play Football
Four
Chance
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
Ronald Reagan
Heroes
Else
Minutes
Longer
Five
Than
Braver
May
Just
Anyone
Anyone Else
The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.
Ronald Reagan
Hope
Time
Good
Leadership
People
Strong
Evil
Rally
British People
Bit
Triumph
Given
Over
Know
Forces
Ultimately
Little
Little Bit
British
The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.
Ronald Reagan
World
Enjoy
Worship
Totalitarian
Spirit
Because
Does
Human
Impulse
Create
Produces
Violence
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
Ronald Reagan
Care
Big
Enough
Worried
Deficit
About
Take
Take Care
Am
Big Enough
Itself
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