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Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, "What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power." But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.


Ronald Reagan

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RONALD REAGAN I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabine...
RONALD REAGAN I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.
RONALD REAGAN How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an ant...
RONALD REAGAN Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
RONALD REAGAN Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in...
RONALD REAGAN Facts are stupid things.
RONALD REAGAN Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the ...
RONALD REAGAN Don't be afraid to see what you see.
RONALD REAGAN Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
RONALD REAGAN Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formida...
RONALD REAGAN My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever...
RONALD REAGAN History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
RONALD REAGAN You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope...
RONALD REAGAN To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the cro...
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