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" A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at? "
Ronald Reagan
Need
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You
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" Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. "
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" I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: 'This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.' Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. "
Ronald Reagan
Yes
Faith
Fall
" We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. "
Ronald Reagan
Law
American
Broken
" Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. "
Ronald Reagan
Politics
Come
First
" The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities - which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means. "
Ronald Reagan
Simple
Culture
Democracy
" 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. "
Ronald Reagan
Go
Standards
Tough
" Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. "
Ronald Reagan
Age
Information
Modern
" Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression. "
Ronald Reagan
Enemies
Today
Democracy
" The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. "
Ronald Reagan
Intelligence
Business
Best
" You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. "
Ronald Reagan
Way
Character
Eating
" No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting. "
Ronald Reagan
Me
Matter
Even
" We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. "
Ronald Reagan
Someone
Inspirational
Everyone
" My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. "
Ronald Reagan
Tell
You
Forever
" Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. "
Ronald Reagan
Democracy
Worth
Dying
" I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. "
Ronald Reagan
World
Peace
Great
" One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. "
Ronald Reagan
Sure
Way
Crime
" Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can't even imagine a world without her - He loves her. "
Ronald Reagan
Head
Her
Love
" Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. "
Ronald Reagan
Government
You
Better
" Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. "
Ronald Reagan
Man
Inflation
Hit
" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat. "
Ronald Reagan
Light
Heat
Feel
" Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is. "
Ronald Reagan
Everything
America
Abuse
" If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. "
Ronald Reagan
Patriotism
God
Will
" I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. "
Ronald Reagan
Through
Like
Congress
" Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. "
Ronald Reagan
Freedom
Children
Generation
" Facts are stubborn things. "
Ronald Reagan
Truth
Things
Stubborn
" Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer. "
Ronald Reagan
Five
Minutes
Heroes
" I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. "
Ronald Reagan
Fat
Understand
Republican
" Man is not free unless government is limited. "
Ronald Reagan
Free
Freedom
Man
" It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? "
Ronald Reagan
Hard Work
Work
Why
" To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. "
Ronald Reagan
Just
Intention
Economy