RONALDUS MAGNUS

[SouthernDZ]

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." - 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

"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

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

[Sdiver]

"Honey, I forgot to duck." ...said to Nancy after being shot by John Hinckley.

"All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia."....said to a Hospital Doctor who asked him how he felt after being shot by J.H.

"I hope you're all Republicans." ....said to the Doctors who were going to operate on him after being shot.

[Gypsy]

Good stuff right there. I never get tired of reading some of his more quotable quotes. God bless, Mr. President.

[Warrior-Mentor]

"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

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

These two are particularly poignant today.

[rubberneck]

These are some of my favorites. I wish our elected leaders would take the last two quotes to heart.

"Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him."-Ronald Reagan

"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."-Ronald Reagan

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."-Ronald Reagan

"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."-Ronald Reagan

"To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will."-Ronald Reagan

"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."-Ronald Reagan

[rubberneck]

These two are particularly poignant today.

The full quote goes like this:

Above all, we must realize that 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. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.- Ronald Reagan

That last sentence makes it even more poignant than the shortened one IMHO.

[kgoerz]

My Favorite. I wish I could find the video of this.
During one of his farewell dinners he was showing a slide show covering his years in the White House. One photo showed him inside Air Force One. He was looking thru the window with a scoped rife. Obviously it was a gift and he was checking it out.

His Quote or close to it.
"Lucky for us, PETA never saw this picture"
"In the early days of my presidency"
"during long boring cross country flights"
"I had the Pilots take AF1 down low when over the plains so we could shoot Buffalo "