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Happy Birthday, President Reagan!
As we celebrate today what would have been the 98th birthday of President Ronald Reagan, I’d like to share a few of the quotes that demonstrate why he was called “The Great Communicator.” Reagan’s inextinguishable optimism, patriotism, and dedication to freedom continue to give me more hope than any hollow slogans about change ever will. There’s not enough room in a single post to include all the wit and wisdom from this magnificent statesman, but here are a few of my favorites…and just as appropriate today as when he spoke them.
- “One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government’s primary concerns.”
- “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we’ve been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.”
- “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.”
- “Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process”
- “But great as our tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public spending. For decades we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children’s future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals.”
- “Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”
- “The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”
- “Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
- “If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.”
Happy Birthday, Dutch!
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UPDATE: A good summary by Clue Meter:
I think that what pisses off so many people about Ronald Reagan is what pisses so many people off about America: His good natured confidence, his willingness to do what is right in the face of opposition, and simply being right.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
