Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

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Ronald Reagan
40th US president (1911-2004). A Hollywood actor turned California governor, he won 1980 in a landslide. Reaganomics paired tax cuts with a defence build-up tripling debt; he denounced the USSR yet signed the INF Treaty.
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Ronald Reagan's Other Quotes
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.
The march of freedom and democracy will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history.
Honey, I forgot to duck.
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Related Quotes
Nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev
There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.
-- Margaret Thatcher
We choose freedom.
-- Konrad Adenauer
It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.
-- Harry S. Truman
The march of freedom and democracy will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history.
-- Ronald Reagan
We have no jealousy of German greatness, and there is nothing in this program that impairs it. We do not wish to injure her or to block in any way her legitimate influence or power.
-- Woodrow Wilson