The Real Reagan Record By Ed Rubenstein

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The Heritage Foundation: The Real Reagan Economic Record: Responsible and Successful Fiscal Policy By Peter Sperry, March 1, 2001

"We have tried spending money. We are spending more money than we have ever spent before and it does not work. I want to see people get a job... We have never made good on our promises. . . . I say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started . . . . And an enormous debt to boot!"
~~~ Henry Morgenthau, Jr., FDR's Secretary of the Treasury (1934-1945) Congressional Testimony, May 1939

"[W]hen a strict interpretation of the Constitution, according to the fixed rules which govern the interpretation of laws, is abandoned, and the theoretical opinions of individuals are allowed to control its meaning, we have no longer a Constitution; we are under the government of individual men, who for the time being have power to declare what the Constitution is, according to their own views of what it ought to mean."
~~~ Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis, 1857, Dred Scott Decision: Dissenting Opinion

“Once the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic.”
~~~ Benjamin Franklin

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
~~~ Thomas Jefferson

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
~~~ Patrick Henry

"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."
~~~ Samuel Adams

""The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought of course, to be preferred; or, in other words the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents."
~~~ Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers, No. 78

"Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state. It will prescribe for every one where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say. Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance."
~~~ Winston Churchill, 1945

"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions." -
~~~ James Madison, 1792

"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."
~~~ Thomas Jefferson

"Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?"
~~~ George W. Bush, SOTU Speech, 1/28/03

"I say the Second Amendment is, in order of importance, the first amendment. It is America's First Freedom, the one right that protects all of the others. Among freedom of speech, of the press, of religion, of assembly, of redress of grievances, it is the first among equals. It alone offers the absolute capacity to live without fear. The right to keep and bear arms is the one right that permits "rights" to exist at all."
~~~ Charlton Heston, Former NRA President

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."
~~~ Thomas Jefferson

"The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters. The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency."
~~~ Tom Tancredo

"We, the people, are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the constitution".
~~~ Abraham Lincoln

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
~~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The power to tax is the power to destroy. A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny."
~~~ Calvin Coolidge, 1924

"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."
~~~ Sen. Barry Goldwater

"We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another."
~~~ Richard Nixon

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
~~~ Rush Limbaugh

"Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be."
~~~ John Wayne

"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."
~~~ John F. Kennedy

"Consider the following. If you say something negative about Joseph Smith or Brigham Young, the Mormons won’t threaten to kill you. If you malign Moses, Orthodox rabbis won’t issue a fatwah against you. If you insult Jesus, in a painting or play, you’re likely to get a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. It’s only the apostles of the Religion of Peace who are ready to whack you for looking cross-eyed at their beloved prophet."
~~~ Don Feder, Religion of Peace Watch, October 28, 2002

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."
~~~ Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU.

"A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering."
~~~ Thomas Jefferson, 1816

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
~~~ General George S. Patton

"There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure the peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war."
~~~ President Washington, Annual Address to Congress in Philadelphia, December 3, 1793

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