The “Great One” also said this: “I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government's primary concerns.”
He, of course, is speaking about Lincoln's and the Republican party's violations of the Constitution.
With your track record for proffering opinion as fact it would be interesting to see how you substantiate this claim.
It must stick in your craw that a great American like Ronald Reagan thought so highly of Abraham Lincoln. Let's add a few more quotables, shall we?
Whoever would understand in his heart the meaning of America will find it in the life of Abraham Lincoln..
Inaugural Address
West Front of the U.S. Capitol, January 20, 1981
As Lincoln once said in another turbulent time, “If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.”
Radio Address to the Nation on the Fiscal Year 1984 Budget February 12, 1983
President Lincoln once reminded us that through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.
Remarks at the Normandy Invasion Ceremony, Omaha Beach Memorial at Omaha Beach, France. June 6, 1984