35 Quotes by Ronald Reagan about country

  • Author Ronald Reagan
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    The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an idea that became a country - was a nation governed by professional politicians who had an interest in getting re-elected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then eagerly looking forward to getting back to the farm.

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    It (Unemployment Insurance) provides prepaid vacations for a segment of our country which has made it a way of life

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    I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future.

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    We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems

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    The things that unite us-America's past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us.

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    Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the American experiment in individual liberty, free enterprise and republican self-government could succeed only if power were widely distributed. And since in any society social and political power flow from economic power, they saw that wealth and property would have to be widely distributed among the people of the country. The truth of this insight is immediately apparent.

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    America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.

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    For one, we very much need in any immigration bill - we need protection for people who are in this country and who have not become citizens, for example, that they are protected and legitimized and given permanent residency here. And we want to see some things of that kind added to the immigration bill.

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    A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.

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