Then why was Newt pushing for the public mandate?
See, this is what I don’t get. How does it benefit him to collaborate with the Democrats in selling out our freedoms?
“Santorum’s views on individualism are diametrically opposed to Reagan’s”
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
- Reagan
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
- Reagan.
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
- Reagan.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
- Reagan
Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
- Reagan
There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
- Reagan
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
- Reagan
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
- Reagan
Oh fine, let’s quote Reagan:
“It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”
“Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”
“There are those in America today who have come to depend absolutely on government for their security. And when government fails they seek to rectify that failure in the form of granting government more power. So, as government has failed to control crime and violence with the means given it by the Constitution, they seek to give it more power at the expense of the Constitution. But in doing so, in their willingness to give up their arms in the name of safety, they are really giving up their protection from what has always been the chief source of despotism — government.”
“I’m convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority. Very simply, they want to be left alone in peace and safety to take care of the family by earning an honest dollar and putting away some savings. This may not sound too exciting, but there is something magnificent about it. On the farm, on the street corner, in the factory and in the kitchen, millions of us ask nothing more, but certainly nothing less than to live our own lives according to our values —at peace with ourselves, our neighbors and the world.”
“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
“You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down — up to a man’s age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.”
” Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.”
“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
“The ten most dangerous words in the English language are ‘Hi, I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”
“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”
” Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.”
And all of these quotes stand for the ideals Santorum rejects.