"The taxpayer - that's someone who works..." - Quote by Ronald Reagan
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
“You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.”
“America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of knowledge and opportunity to all citizens, no matter how humble their background, so they could climb higher, help build the American dream, and leave a better life for those who follow.”
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“What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.”
“Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.”
“No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”