It will be very easy for you to say, "Well, I will do something, some day. When I can afford it, I am going to." But would you let an old "grad" tell you one thing now? Giving is a habit. Get into the habit now, because you will never be able to afford to give and contribute, thus to repay the obligation you owe to those people who made this college possible, if you wait until you think you can afford it. Start now regardless of how small, and in the days to come when you are confronted with demands for many worthwhile causes and charities I think you will find that you will give dutifully to all the worthy ones. But here and there you will pick one or two that will be favorites, and you can do no better than to pick this, your Alma Mater, because you will not only be repaying your own personal obligations, you will be making your contribution to the very process which has made and continues to keep America great.This democracy of ours which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us not tear it asunder, for no man knows once it is destroyed where or when he will find its protective warmth again. ~ Ronald Reagan
Everyone does it. It will cut Medicare. It's the economy, stupid. We should all just take a deep breath. There is no controlling legal authority. I don't recall. Republicans are being partisan. It's his private life. Anyways, the stock market is doing well. It's a risky tax scheme. We should just put this past us. It will blow a hole in the budget. Ken Starr is an out-of-control prosecutor. I was on hold for nine minutes; I never talked to anyone. America is too sophisticated for that. We have forgiven him. This is the ninties, anyways. You are being mean-spirited. Republicans do it too! It's all part of a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. I lied to my diary. Four years and Forty Million Dollars! I don't have a specific recollection. We're going to WAR, Larry! WAR! There is no credible evidence of any illegal activity by any covered person. Can't we just move on? He was traumatized as a child. But that's not what's important here. There are Clinton Haters who will stop at nothing. There's no evidence of that. You're just overreacting. Maybe the Secret Service Log was wrong and I wasn't really at the White House the whole time. So what? It's the Dow Jones, not Paula Jones. It’s all about SEX, SEX, SEX! I can think of worse things. I mean, look at the "economy". You don't want to mess with that do you? Senator, there is no one who would have rather found that note than me. Give Bill and Hillary a break, guys. It’s for the CHILDREN. The most ethical administration in our nations history.
"[Most] of those who died in defense of our country... were boys when they died, and they gave up two lives -- the one they were living, and the one they would have lived. They gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers... They gave up everything for their country, for us. All we can do is remember." -- Ronald Reagan (1985)
"It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams." -- Ronald Reagan (1980)
"Freedom is indivisible -- there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep 'some freedoms' while giving up others." -- Ronald Reagan (1972)
"The march of freedom and democracy will leave Marxism and Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people." -- Ronald Reagan (1987)
"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still."From President Reagan's Farewell Address to the Nation, 1-11-89