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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan
If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy.
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.
I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.
Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.
America is no stronger than its people - and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together then one day we will say, ``We fought the good fight. We finished the race We kept the faith.'' And to our children and our children's children we can say, ``We did all that could be done in the brief time that was given to us here on earth.
Life is just one grand sweet song, so start the music.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.
I think the best possible social program is a job.
The greatness of our country has been based on our thinking that everyone has a right even to be wrong.
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.
A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.