Ronald Reagan Quotes

• Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

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• Trust, but verify.

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  Topics in Trust

• 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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• Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

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• If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

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  Topics in Country, Love

• If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

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• I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

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• How can a president not be an actor?

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• Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

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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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  Tags in Responsible, Economic, United

• Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

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• Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let’s not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

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• Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

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  Topics in Age

• They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.

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  Topics in Work

• Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

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  Topics in Age, Funny

• Middle age is when you’re faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o’clock.

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  Topics in Age, Funny

• The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.

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  Topics in Work

• When you see all of the smoke billowing up from the Democrats, ladies and gentlemen, I’d follow the advice of their nominee: Don’t Inhale .

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  Topics in Advice

• Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

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Ronald Reagan (139)

Birth:	6th February, 1911
Death:	5th June, 2004
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Governor, President

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Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. Prior to that, he was the 33rd Governor of California, and a radio, film and television actor.

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Births

• 1670 - William Congreve
• 1947 - Warren Zevon
• 1939 - Ray Stevens
• 1850 - Hermann Ebbinghaus
• 1977 - Michelle Hunziker

Deaths

• 1930 - Rebecca Latimer Felton
• 1986 - L Ron Hubbard
• 1984 - Rosser Reeves
• 1978 - William Barclay
• 1993 - Thurgood Marshall