Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
RONALD REAGANGovernment exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
More Ronald Reagan Quotes
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A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah..
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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.
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Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
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No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
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You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.
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If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
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An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.
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Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
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It is time to realize we are too great a nation for small dreams. We’re not – as some would have us believe – doomed to an inevitable fate.
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Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem.
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
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Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.
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The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
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There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
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Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
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