Posted: Oct 22, 07 4:39am
You don't realize how much you miss him, until you read and remember some
>of the stuff he said and stood for:
>'Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.'
>'The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the
government and I'm here to help.'
>'The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's
just that they know so much that isn't so.'
>'Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too
strong.'
>'I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have
looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.'
>'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.'
>'The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a
>government program.'
>'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.'
>'It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have
learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.'
>'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.'
>'No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as
the will and moral courage of free men and women.
>'If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a
nation gone under.'
Ronald Reagan
