Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
RONALD REAGANBefore I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
More Ronald Reagan Quotes
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We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
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I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.
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Never let the things you can’t do, stop you from doing what you can.
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If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.
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If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
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Sometimes when I’m faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there’s a cook.
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Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
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If you’re explaining, you’re losing.
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Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
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It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.
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We must realize that 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.
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A people free to choose will always choose peace.
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We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
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