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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. - [Abortion] Facts are stupid things. - [Facts] Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - [Freedom] Governments tend not to solve problems, only rearrange them. - [Government] I think I could sum up my position on this with the recitation of a brief Russian proverb "Doveryai no Proveryai." It means trust but verify. - in the "New York Times", Dec. 4, 1987, p. A10 [Treaties : Trust] I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales. - [Politics] I'm not smart enough to lie. - [Lying] In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. - [Government] Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. - [Inflation] 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 [Politics] Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere. - [Management] The current tax code is a daily mugging. - [Taxation] The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted; it belongs to the brave. - [Future] This kind of weapon can't help but have an effect on the population as a whole. - [Weapons] We did not condone and do not condone the shipment of arms. - [Weapons] We don't have to turn to our history books for heroes. They're all around us. Don't let anyone tell that America's best days are behind her that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now. - [America : Heroes] We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. - [Welfare] When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause. - [Cruelty] If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois. I've often wondered at how lives are shaped by what seem like small and inconsequential events, how an apparently random turn in the road can lead you a long way from where you intended to go--and a long way from wherever you expected to go. For me, the first of these turns occurred in the summer of 1932, in the abyss of the Depression. - Ronald Reagan: An American Life [Books (First Lines)]
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