Ronald Reagan's 1989 Farewell Address to the Nation

Reaganite Republican ^ | December 28, 2010 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

"A shining city on a hill..."

President Ronald Reagan's last address from the Oval Office, January 11th, 1989

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"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, wind-swept, 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...."


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[Liz]

When's Reagan going on Mt Rushmore?

[Reaganite Republican]

Just as soon as President Palin can sign the bill

[Liz]

Heh——my thoughts precisely.

[PGalt]

From 9:48 to 10:36 in the 21 minute speech...

Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: “We the People.”

“We the People” tell the government what to do, it doesn’t tell us. “We the People” are the driver—the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which “We the People” tell the government what it is allowed to do. “We the People” are free.

This belief has been the underlying basis for everything I have tried to do these past eight years.

[Ezekiel]

Now *there* was a president. From the comments:

"Every moment of the 7 hours spent waiting to honor this man at the Capitol Rotunda was worth it. It will be many years before another leader earns the same love and effort from so many of his/her fellow citizens. God Bless you and God keep you RR."

Reagan was America's King Josiah.

[Reaganite Republican]

Yeah, as opposed to Obama and other limousine libs... for them, it’s “We” and then theres the plebes, who of course need to be controlled

[Reaganite Republican]

I don’t know if anybody can even partially fill his shoes... but somebody better try pretty darn quick~

‘Cuda...?