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My favorite quote of President Reagan:

"The character that takes command in moments of crucial choices has alredy been determined by a thousand other choices made earlier in seemingly unimportant moments. It has been determined by all the 'little' choices of years past - by all those times when the voice of conscience was at war with the voice of temptation...whispering the lie that 'it really doesn't matter.' It has been determined by all the day-to-day decisions made when life seemed easy and crises seemed far away - the decisions that, piece by piece, bit by bit developed habits of discipline or of laziness; habits of self-sacrifice or self-indulgence; habits of duty and honor and integrity - or dishonor and shame"

Thank you, President Reagan sir, Happy Birthday.

Reagan was a great president for his policies, to be certain, but I think the thing that makes him so outstanding - the thing that will carry him into the history books long after all those of us who remember him are gone - was his belief in America. His belief in the American people. I still get chills and tear up when I read quotes or speeches where he talked about the spirit of the American people.

"We are the showcase of the future. And it is within our power to mold that future-this year and for decades to come. It can be as grand and as great as we make it.
No crisis is beyond the capacity of our people to solve; no challenge too great."
- January 5, 1974

"We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look."
- January 20, 1981

"The lesson of all this was, of course, that because we're a great nation, our challenges seem complex. It will always be this way. But as long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours. And something else we learned: Once you begin a great movement, there's no telling where it will end. We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world."
- January 11, 1989 (Farewell address)

What a great man. What a great vision. What a great believer in freedom.

Happy Birthday. I wish you knew how much you mean to so many of us.