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1911–2004 United States
Ronald Wilson Reagan (6 February 1911 – 5 June 2004) was an American politician and actor, who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Prior to his presidency, he served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975, following a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader.
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A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
Regrettably, we live at a time when some persons do not value all human life. They want to pick and choose which individuals have value.
America's future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts. It rests in the message of hope in songs of a man so many young Americans admire -- New Jersey's own, Bruce Springsteen.
Americans don't go around carrying guns with the idea they're using them to influence other Americans. There's no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.
We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them — this morning, as they prepared for their journey, and waved good-bye, and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."
I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war [in Vietnam] than the people have been told.
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.
A Time for Choosing (1964)
We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry every night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet.
I have one question for those rulers: If communism is the wave of the future, why do you still need walls to keep people in and armies of secret police to keep them quiet?
speech (1983)
I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary.
Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one.
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.
America itself is no accident of geography or political science, but part of God's plan to preserve and extend the sacred fire of human liberty.
Dedication of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (1991)
They called it the Reagan revolution. Well, I'll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values and our common sense.
Farewell Address (1989)
Well I've said it before and I'll say it again — America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead.
Because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world.
Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say.
I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true. But the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.
I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.
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A Time for Choosing (1964) · 6 Where's the Rest of Me? (1965) · 1 Remarks at a Mount Vernon, Virginia, Ceremony Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington (1982, speech) · 2 Address on the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983, speech) · 1 Remarks on Signing the Bill Making the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a National Holiday (1983, speech) · 1 speech (1983, speech) · 1 Remarks at a White House Ceremony Marking Progress Made in the Campaign Against Drunk Driving with Michael Jackson (1984, speech) · 4 Signing statement on the ratification of the United Nations Convention on Torture (1984, speech) · 1 Farewell Address (1989, speech) · 5 Dedication of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (1991) · 4 Stories in His Own Hand: The Everyday Wisdom of Ronald Reagan (2001) · 1 The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (2004) · 1 Who was Ronald Reagan? (2004) · 1 The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (2007) · 1 Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2013) · 1 Exit with Honor: The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan (2015) · 1