Posted on 01/27/2008 6:48:28 AM PST by ozarkgirl
Feeling discouraged and reminiscing about Reagan, I started looking up quotes from our latest great President. Here are a few of my favorites:
1. I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.
2. Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
3. Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
4. Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
5. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
6. Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
7. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
8. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
9. I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
10. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
11. The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
12. The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
13. The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
14. I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
15. Man is not free unless government is limited.
16. No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
17. I'm afraid I can't use a mule. I have several hundred up on Capitol Hill. –refusing a gift of a mule
18. What does an actor know about politics? –criticizing Ed Asner for opposing American foreign policy
19. What makes him think a middle-aged actor, who's played with a chimp, could have a future in politics? -on Clint Eastwood's bid to become mayor of Carmel
20. Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Lighten up, Francis.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.We are there.
Indeed, we most certainly are.
You just made the list... : )
That was such a great line and comeback during that debate... He made another one poking fun at his own age that I think was just as witty...
“Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying...”
"On our domestic agenda, there is a subject that weights heavily on all of us - the tragedy of abortion on demand. This is a grave moral evil and one that requires the fullest discussion on the floors of the House and Senate. As we saw in the last century with the issue of slavery, any attempt by the Congress to stifle or compromise away discussion of important moral issues only further inflames emotions on both sides and leads ultimately to even more social disruption and disunity.~ President Ronald Reagan, February 18, 1983
Kinda sounds like this Reagan Guy everyone’s talking about knew what he was talking about, don’t it?
Reagan was a man of principle...always.
We remember our founders and those who followed them for many reasons.
If we do not know what they believed, and why they believed it, we may not learn of great danger until it's too late. They have "been there & done that" to our great benefit - why throw their sacrifices away, just because you want to "do it my way"?
As for Reagan's humor, good jokes never get old.....unless you are too dense or dull-spirited to "get 'em".
That’ll bring a tear to your eye, it did mine!
Beautiful picture! :)
How times have changed.
Although I wasn’t even born until after Ronald Reagan’s presidency was over, and after all my research on him and his ideals, he is my hero.
Then you need to be the torch bearer to a new generation. Vote for people who share his ideals.
There are men who would make great Presidents again, I hope you see one as good as him in your lifetime. I’m not that old but they’re pretty rare. In my opinion, the greatest one before him was Teddy Roosevelt. And no, I wasn’t alive for his Presidency, :) I just enjoy reading about him, what an adventurer, he accomplished so much in his lifetime.
“We are there.”
You are exactly correct.
President Reagan is a hero to a great many of us. I thank God that I had the opportunity to not only have him as my governor but as my president.
Hence the decay we see all around us.
I've been re-reading the section on the Cold War in John O'Sullivan's The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister. It is a bracing antidote to the vapid anti-Reaganism of academics like John Gaddis. Liberally salted with entries from the diaries of high Soviet officials at the time, this book makes clear that Reagan, if anything, is under-appreciated for his vision, skill, and tenacity. He had to defeat not only the USSR, but also the "intellectuals," the Democrats, and the State Department.
Yet, between him, Thatcher, and Pope JP II, Gorbachev didn't have a chance.
If someone like that should ever be foolish enough as to choose to run.
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