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Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Running, Peace, War

Ronald Reagan's Remarks at the National Conference of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, www.reaganfoundation.org. March 30, 1981.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Funny, Sarcastic, Running

We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Running, Government, Sight

Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.337, Best Books on

An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk up to Reagan's desk and say, 'I don't like the way you are running the country.' Gorbachev replied, You can do the same thing in the Soviet Union. You can go into the Kremlin, walk up to my desk and say 'I don't like the way Reagan is running his country.'

Running, Country, War

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.

Running, Self, Expression

Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

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.

Running, Freedom, Home

Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.

Running, Government, Economy

Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

Americans are not going to tolerate intimidation, terror and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. And we are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich ... There can be no place on earth where it is safe for these monsters to rest,or train or practice their cruel and deadly. We must act together - or unilateraly, if necessary - to ensue that these terrorists have no sanctuary, anywhere.

Running, War, Practice

A speech to the American Bar Association after the TWA Flight 847 hijacking, June 14, 1985.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Funny, Running, Government

Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure.

Running, Long, Independence

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

Running, Presidential, Tides

Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.100, Humanix Books

We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn't waiting for us to wake up, He isn't maybe running out of patience.

Running, Waiting, Voting

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties.

Running, Country, Presidential

Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere. . . . You can run but you can't hide.

Running, Messages, Young

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Ronald Reagan”

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)

Running, Thinking, Moscow

Born: February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004
Occupation: 40th U.S. President

Quotes: 1096

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