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„A kormány gazdaságról alkotott képe néhány rövid mondatban összefoglalható: Ha mozog, adóztasd meg! Ha tovább mozog, szabályozd! Ha már nem mozog, támogasd.”

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Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) amerikai színész, politikus, az Amerikai Egyesült Államok 40. elnöke (1981-1989)

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business (1986-08-15)
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Original: Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. – Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business (1986-08-15)

„A politika a második legrégebbi mesterség. És rájöttem, nagyon hasonlít is az elsőre.”

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Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) amerikai színész, politikus, az Amerikai Egyesült Államok 40. elnöke (1981-1989)

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„A Kormány olyan, mint egy csecsemő. Egy nagy étvágyú emésztőcsatorna az egyik felén, a másik felén pedig semmi felelősségérzet.”

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Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) amerikai színész, politikus, az Amerikai Egyesült Államok 40. elnöke (1981-1989)

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Original: Goverment is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

„Mr. Gorbacsov, bontsa le ezt a falat! [http://iranyberlin.hu/erdekessegek-berlinrol/#erdekessegek]”

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Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) amerikai színész, politikus, az Amerikai Egyesült Államok 40. elnöke (1981-1989)

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Original: Mr Gorbachev – tear this wall down!

„Tisztelem az 1964-es Emberjogi Törvényt. Ha szükséges, akár fegyverrel is az emberekre kényszeríteném.”

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Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) amerikai színész, politikus, az Amerikai Egyesült Államok 40. elnöke (1981-1989)

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Original: I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

„Kiadtam utasításba, hogy ébresszenek fel bármikor, ha a nemzetet veszély fenyegeti, akkor is, ha éppen kormányülésen vagyok.”

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Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) amerikai színész, politikus, az Amerikai Egyesült Államok 40. elnöke (1981-1989)

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Original: I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

„A legrémisztőbb „kilenc” szó az angol nyelvben a következő: "A kormány küldött, hogy segítsek önöknek."”

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Original: The nine most terrifying words in the Englist language are: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

„Én az 1964-es Polgárjogi Törvény ellen szavaztam volna.”

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Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) amerikai színész, politikus, az Amerikai Egyesült Államok 40. elnöke (1981-1989)

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Original: I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

„Nem arról van szó, hogy a liberálisok tudatlanok. Arról van szó, hogy sok mindent tudnak, ami nem úgy van.”

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Original: If isn't that Liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so.

„Az igaz, hogy a kemény munka még senkit sem ölt meg – de minek kockáztasson az ember?”

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„Politikusnak lenni nem rossz dolog. Ha sikeres vagy, hálásak neked, ha pedig lejáratod magad, még mindig írhatsz egy könyvet.”

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Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) amerikai színész, politikus, az Amerikai Egyesült Államok 40. elnöke (1981-1989)

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Original: Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.

„Úgy vettem észre, hogy mindenki, aki az abortusz pártján áll, már még született…”

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„A legnagyszerűbb vezető nem feltétlenül az, aki a legnagyszerűbb dolgokat teszi. Hanem az, aki ráveszi az embereket, hogy a legnagyszerűbb dolgokat tegyék.”

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„Élj egyszerűen, szeress nagylelkűen, törődj mélységesen, beszélj kedvesen, a többit bízd Istenre.”

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“i am do big fard”

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher

“Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher

Source: Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765-1770; published 1782), Books II-VI, V

“There is only one man who gets his own way—he who can get it single-handed; therefore freedom, not power, is the greatest good. That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires. This is my fundamental maxim. Apply it to childhood, and all the rules of education spring from it. Society has enfeebled man, not merely by robbing him of the right to his own strength, but still more by making his strength insufficient for his needs. This is why his desires increase in proportion to his weakness; and this is why the child is weaker than the man. If a man is strong and a child is weak it is not because the strength of the one is absolutely greater than the strength of the other, but because the one can naturally provide for himself and the other cannot. Thus the man will have more desires and the child more caprices, a word which means, I take it, desires which are not true needs, desires which can only be satisfied with the help of others.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau book Emile, or On Education

Emile, or On Education (1762), Book II

“Sensitivity is the principle of all action. A being, albeit animated, who would feel nothing, would never act, for what would its motive for acting be? God himself is sensitive since he acts. All men are therefore sensitive, and perhaps to the same degree, but not in the same manner. There is a purely passive physical and organic sensitivity which seems to have as its end only the preservation of our bodies and of our species through the direction of pleasure and pain. There is another sensitivity that I call active and moral which is nothing other than the faculty of attaching our affections to beings who are foreign to us. This type, about which study of nerve pairs teaches nothing, seems to offer a fairly clear analogy for souls to the magnetic faculty of bodies. Its strength is in proportion to the relationships we feel between ourselves and other beings, and depending on the nature of these relationships it sometimes acts positively by attraction, sometimes negatively by repulsion, like the poles of a magnet. The positive or attracting action is the simple work of nature, which seeks to extend and reinforce the feeling of our being; the negative or repelling action, which compresses and diminishes the being of another, is a combination produced by reflection. From the former arise all the loving and gentle passions, and from the latter all the hateful and cruel passions.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher

Second Dialogue; translated by Judith R. Bush, Christopher Kelly, Roger D. Masters
Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques (published 1782)

“I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the mould with which she formed me, can only be determined after having read this work.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher

Variant translations: I may not be better than other people, but at least I am different.
If I am not better, at least I am different.
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765-1770; published 1782), Book I

“When you reached the age of reason, I secured you from the influence of human prejudice; when your heart awoke I preserved you from the sway of passion. Had I been able to prolong this inner tranquillity till your life's end, my work would have been secure, and you would have been as happy as man can be; but, my dear Emile, in vain did I dip you in the waters of Styx, I could not make you everywhere invulnerable; a fresh enemy has appeared, whom you have not yet learnt to conquer, and from whom I cannot save you. That enemy is yourself. Nature and fortune had left you free. You could face poverty, you could bear bodily pain; the sufferings of the heart were unknown to you; you were then dependent on nothing but your position as a human being; now you depend on all the ties you have formed for yourself; you have learnt to desire, and you are now the slave of your desires. Without any change in yourself, without any insult, any injury to yourself, what sorrows may attack your soul, what pains may you suffer without sickness, how many deaths may you die and yet live! A lie, an error, a suspicion, may plunge you in despair.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau book Emile, or On Education

Emile, or On Education (1762), Book V