Poems List

As government expands, liberty contracts.
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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
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Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.
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I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life.

statement to the American people revealing that he had Alzheimer’s disease

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An evil empire.

of the Soviet Union

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We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’

after the loss of the space shuttle Challenger with all its crew

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You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.

in New York Times 15 January 1981

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President Carter had described a proposal for a national health insurance plan

JIMMY CARTER : Governor Reagan, again, typically is against such a proposal. RONALD REAGAN : There you go again!

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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

at a conference in Los Angeles, 2 March 1977

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I paid for this microphone.

in 1980, debating for the Republican nomination against George Bush; the moderator had ordered Reagan’s microphone turned off when he asked for the participation of other candidates, and the refusal to allow this was held to be very damaging to Bush

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