Reaganisms

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[Kimmers]

"THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR"....

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose." - Ronald Reagan

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan

"Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan

"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress." - Ronald Reagan

"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan

"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." - Ronald Reagan

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." - Ronald Reagan

"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting." - Ronald Reagan

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession; I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." - Ronald Reagan

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. - Ronald Reagan

"An economist is someone who sees something happen and wonders whether it would work in theory." - Ronald Reagan

[Kimmers]

I thought we could use a few "Reaganims" again....I miss the Gipper

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

There he is.

Mr America.

[MNJohnnie]

I thought we could use a few "Reaganims" again....I miss the Gipper

Mr President Reagan, I miss you very very much these days. What I wouldn't give for 5 mins more of your wisdom. Especially Ronald Reagan's 11th Commnandmdnet.

Thou shall speak no ill of other Republicans

But I will cling, like Reagan did, to his statement that we can always trust the good sense of the American people.

[Jewelsetter]

ping

[sinanju]

Oh man. There are some good ones there I've never heard before.

[sinanju]

"...no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a cabinet meeting."

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Some more classic Reaganism (March 8, 1983):

"While America's military strength is important, let me add here that I have always maintained that the struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might.

"The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.

"Whittaker Chambers, the man whose own religious conversion made him a "witness" to one of the terrible traumas of our age, the Hiss-Chambers case, wrote that the crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which the West is indifferent to God, the degree to which it collaborates in communism's attempt to make man stand alone without God.

"For Marxism-Lenism is actually the second-oldest faith, he said, first proclaimed in the Garden of Eden with the words of temptation: 'Ye shall be as gods.' The Western world can answer this challenge, he wrote, 'but only provided that its faith in God and the freedom He enjoins is as great in communism's faith in man.'

"I believe we shall rise to this challenge; I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material but spiritual, and because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow man."

[Huck]

Great stuff.

[quantim]

All my tears of his funeral were never of sadness but of joy and pride of 49-state victories.

The most powerful since JFK's.

JFK, had his moments but only limps in the shadow of Reagan.

[SouthTexas]

Thank you.

[gondramB]

"An economist is someone who sees something happen and wonders whether it would work in theory."

My personal favorite.

[voletti]

Bloody awesome!

Tks for posting this.

[counterpunch]

My personal favorite:
"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." - Ronald Reagan

[kanecorp]

All I can say is thank God we had Ronald Reagan, a wonderful President, but more importantly a wonderful man.

[apackof2]

Ronald Reagan ...."When Character was King"......oh how we could use him today

[SevenofNine]

Come think of it I like that quote about oldest profession hey come from guy who speclaize the third oldest profession ACTING that insult LOL!

[Samwise]

[llevrok]

Note my tag line. Yet another great one from the true Great One. (sorry Dr. Levin)

Thanks for the post!!

[My Right Foot]

Talk about class. I miss him.

[Chode]

Amazing things can get done if you don't care who gets the credit... Ronald Reagan AKA Ronaldus Magnum