No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. - Ronald Reagan

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We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?

Ronald Reagan

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

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It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history. . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

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You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.

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In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the. . . West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

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The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

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All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

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The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

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