Remembering Reagan, on the anniversary of his passing

The Reagan Foundation ^ | June 5, 2007

[WestTexasWend]

"The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology." - Ronald Reagan

[WestTexasWend]

More quotes, pics at the link. Please add personal favorites here.

[KingSnorky]

“We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems.”

[Publius]

Reacting to an accusation from the Soviet leadership:

"We have a word for that. A word with a long and honored history in our rich agricultural tradition."

[appleharvey]

One of my favorites, “How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” We may never get his like again in my lifetime.

[KingSnorky]

It’s not a Reagan quote but a quote about Reagan shortly after his passing:

“When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This can’t be said often enough by people who lived under oppression for half a century, until communism fell in 1989 ... I distinguish between two kinds of politicians. There are those who view politics as a tactical game, a game in which they do not reveal any individuality, in which they lose their own face. There are, however, leaders for whom politics is a means of defending and furthering values. For them, it is a moral pursuit. They do so because the values they cherish are endangered. They’re convinced that there are values worth living for, and even values worth dying for. Otherwise they would consider their life and work pointless. Only such politicians are great politicians and Ronald Reagan was one of them.” — former Polish President Lech Walesa

[KingSnorky]

>>”We have a word for that. A word with a long and honored history in our rich agricultural tradition.”<<

Never heard that one! Love it!

[etradervic]

“Let us resolve tonight that young Americans will always ... find there a city of hope in a country that is free.... And let us resolve they will say of our day and our generation, we did keep the faith with our God, that we did act worthy of ourselves, that we did protect and pass on lovingly that shining city on a hill.” — Election Eve speech, Nov. 3, 1980