Gawd I miss him!
Posted on 01/21/2006 4:01:06 PM PST by rhema
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." —Remarks at a business conference, Los Angeles, March 2, 1977
9. "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans." —The Observer, March 29, 1981
8. “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." —Circa 1988
7. "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting." —Said often during his presidency, 1981-1989
6. "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." —Remarks in Arlington, Virginia, September 25, 1987
5. "The 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." —Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business, August 15, 1986
4. “I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.” —Said often during his presidency, 1981-1989
3. "All great change in America begins at the dinner table." —Farewell Address to the Nation, The White House, January 11, 1989
2. "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." —The New York Times, September 22, 1980
1. "There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." — First Inaugural Address, January 21, 1981
Er, 230 years, I seem to be having problems with math this evening...
My favorite!
See 218.
I took that Friday off of work, so I could watch the coverage all day. Everything was so wonderfully done, until Non Reagan (not a Jr.) had to open his mouth at the California service.
I really wanted to go to the viewing at the library. Simi Valley is not far from where I work, but it just wasn't feasible. I will go this year. I was only 11 when RWR was elected, but he made a definite impact on my life.
As an American male black conservative Republican, it has been very revealing to see who really wanted everyone to be free--and who really only pretend to want it.
"We lost Ronald Reagan just a few days ago...but we have missed him for a long time." (President George W. Bush, at the National Cathedral Service for President Reagan)
That's good!!
GORBECHEV-TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!!!
I miss him..
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Wanna honor Ronald Reagan?
If I can thread poach a little... I know some of the people on this thread are already "FOLDING" but for those who aren't, there is now a major project by FReepers and others regarding protein folding and distributed computing. The effort is dedicated to *Ronald Reagan*.
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120
FReepers are ranked nationally (almost top 400) in our efforts to help this massive science project. Please join us if you would like to contribute and "Fold one for the Gipper". Here is one of several threads that can help point you to start donating your unused CPUs if you are interested.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1558526/posts
Self-ping and a BTTT. A great man for whom I cast my first vote.
Went to a fundraiser there a few weeks ago. It is a very cool display of air force one.
I'm not either, but GWB has been so incredibly appeasement minded toward the Dims & so pro BIG government & runaway spending on domestic issues & programs over the past 5 years, it is pathetic. I am afraid that GWB & the Repub party have clearly forfeited the moral high ground they once had, let alone the momentum he could have had from both of his presidential election victories.... especially 2004.
My fav is,
"How did your meeting go with President Tu-Tu?"
"Oh, so-so."
Well, I can get half of it to you. This is from Post 2 of the thread linked below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/924363/posts
President Reagan's Speech at Pointe de Hoc, Normandy
We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.
We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France. The air is soft, but forty years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. At dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. The Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied advance.
The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers -- at the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machine-guns and throwing grenades. And the American Rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. When one Ranger fell, another would take his place. When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again.
They climbed, shot back, and held their footing. Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe. Two hundred and twenty-five came here. After two days of fighting only ninety could still bear arms.
Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. And before me are the men who put them there.
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.
Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender's poem. You are men who in your 'lives fought for life...and left the vivid air signed with your honor'...
Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet you risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith, and belief; it was loyalty and love.
The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next. It was the deep knowledge -- and pray God we have not lost it -- that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.
You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.
(Ronald Reagan -- Pointe de Hoc, Normandy, June 6, 1984 -The 40th anniversary of D-Day)
BUMP
"Gentlemen and ladies, I hate inflation, I hate taxes, and I hate Communism. Do something about it."
President Reagan, during his first Cabinet meeting.
Source:
http://www.nationalreview.com/moore/moore200406070926.asp
Ronald RayGun..
Gawd I miss him!
That's the first one I thought of, and then when he asked the doctors if they were all Republican.
Some of my more memorable Bush 43 lines:
September 14, 2001, in New York City, after someone in the crowd yelled "I can't her you!" He said "Well, I can hear you! I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people...and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear ALL of us soon!"
Another was at the Joint Address to Congress on September 20, 2001: "Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done."
To me, it is not Reagan vs. Bush: it is Reagan and Bush. Each had different challenges, strengths and weaknesses. Both will be remembered, beyond the MSM filter, as great presidents.
LOL BUMP!
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