Ronald Reagan actually said...

Excessive taxation distorts market signals and weakens the economic incentives on which our continued prosperity must depend.

Informal Exchange With Representatives of Le Figaro, Together With Written Responses to Questions Submitted by the Newspaper

12/21/1983

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There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall.

Everyone wins, particularly our elderly Americans.

The ultimate goals of the United States are not so different now as 150 years ago when Andrew Jackson was President.

We maintain our military strength with the fervent hope that it will never be used.