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Ronald Reagan quotes

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“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address
“Now, I know this issue is very controversial. But unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence...” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“But America is too great for small dreams.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“America will never be whole as long as the right to life granted by our Creator is denied to the unborn.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“We are a nation that has a government—not the other way around.” Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address
“All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government.” Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address
“Families stand at the center of our society. And every family has a personal stake in promoting excellence in education.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“My friends, some years ago, the Federal Government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.” Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address
“You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we're not bound by that same limitation? We must act today in order to preserve...” Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address
“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“We'll continue to redirect our resources to our two highest budget priorities—a strong national defense to keep America free and at peace and a reliable safety net of social programs for those who have contributed and those who are in need.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“Preparing for the future must begin, as always, with our children. We need to set for them new and more rigorous goals.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“And we are going forward with research on a new Orient Express that could, by the end of the next decade, take off from Dulles Airport, accelerate up to 25 times the speed of sound, attaining low Earth orbit or flying to Tokyo within 2 hours.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that's not innocent; nor can we be passive when freedom is under siege.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“But our strategy for peace with freedom must also be based on strength—economic strength and military strength.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“Above all, 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. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.” Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address
“History is made by men and women of vision and courage. Tonight freedom is on the march.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on Earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before.” Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address
“To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I've just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.” Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address
“I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.” Ronald Reagan

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State of the Union Address (14)
Inaugural Address (8)