10 Quotes by Ronald Reagan about liberty

  • Author Ronald Reagan
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    Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day.

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  • Author Ronald Reagan
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    I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

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  • Author Ronald Reagan
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    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.

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    A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

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    Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

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    A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

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