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.
RONALD REAGANIf we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
More Ronald Reagan Quotes
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There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
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You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.
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Trust, but verify.
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Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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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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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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They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.
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A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets tough.
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
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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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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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Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive.
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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
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A picture is worth 1,000 denials.
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
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