Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
RONALD REAGANToday, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
More Ronald Reagan Quotes
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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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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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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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If you’re explaining, you’re losing.
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Trust, but verify.
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I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.
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Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
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If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
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Excellence does not begin in Washington.
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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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Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.
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They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.
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I’ve always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.
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Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
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