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
The march of freedom and democracy will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history.
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.
Honey, I forgot to duck.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.
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We choose freedom.
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Nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.
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Berlin is the testicles of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.
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We will bury you!
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