Today June 5, 2006 is the anniversary of the death of President Ronald Reagan. He walked the high ground and stayed the course. This is to honor President Reagan and to show my gratitude for his strengths.
Below are some quotes by Ronald Reagan.
– Wild Thing
“I don’t think you can overstate the importance that the rise of Islamic fundamentalism will have to the rest of the world in the century ahead-especially if, as seems possible, its most fanatical elements get their hands on nuclear and chemical weapons and the means to deliver them against their enemies.” –Ronald Reagan
“So, let me today speak for a united people. Let me say simply: We’re Americans. We love this country. We love what she stands for, and we will always defend her…. We live for freedom — our own, our children’s — and we will always stand ready to sacrifice for that freedom.”
– President Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Annual Convention
of the American Bar Association, July 8, 1985.
” We dare not shirk our responsibility to keep America free, secure, and at peace.”- Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, January 25, 1984.
“We must restore America’s ability to defend itself and fulfill its responsibilities as a trustee of freedom and peace in the world…” – President Ronald Reagan, Radio Address to the Nation on Administration Policies, August 25, 1984.
“There must be no wavering by us, nor any doubts by others, that America will meet her responsibilities to remain free, secure, and at peace.”- Ronald Reagan, Second Inaugural Address, January 21, 1985.
“In this storm-tossed world of terrorists and totalitarians, America must always champion freedom, for freedom is the one tide that will lead us to the safe and open harbor of peace. “- Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, January 25, 1986.
“We Americans make no secret of our belief in freedom. In fact, it’s something of a national pastime.” – Ronald Reagan, speech at Moscow State University, May 31, 1988.
“Every lesson of history tells us that appeasement does not lead to peace. It invites an aggressor to test the will of a nation unprepared to meet that test. And tragically, those who seemingly want peace the most, our young people, pay the heaviest price for our failure to maintain our strength. “- Governor Ronald Reagan, Speech, Sept. 15, 1972.
“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.” – President Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981.
“However, our task is far from over. Our friends in the other party will never forgive us for our success, and are doing everything in their power to rewrite history. Listening to the liberals, you’d think that the 1980’s were the worst period since the Great Depression, filled with suffering and despair. I don’t know about you, but I’m getting awfully tired of the whining voices from the White House these days. They’re claiming there was a decade of greed and neglect, but you and I know better than that. We were there. “- President Ronald Reagan, RNC Annual Gala, Feb. 3, 1994
“There was a time when our national security was based on a standing army here within our borders and shore batteries of artillery along our coasts, and of course, a navy to keep the sea-lanes open for the shipping of things
necessary to our well-being. The world has changed. Today, our national security can be threatened in faraway places. It’s up to all of us to be aware of the strategic importance of such places and to be able to identify them.”
–Ronald Reagan
“We stand here on the only island of freedom that is left in the whole world. There is no place left to flee to … no place to escape to. We defend freedom here or it is gone. There is no place for us to run, only to make a stand.
And if we fail, I think we face telling our children, and our children’s children, what it was we found more precious than freedom. Because I am sure someday — if we fail in this — there will be a generation that will ask.”
–Ronald Reagan
He had a great sense of humor:
“My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.”- Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984″
He also loved his country:
“The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.”
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Ronald Wilson Reagan 1911 ~ 2004
“Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel…
One thing Ronald Regan did for us GI’s who were in the military during the Carter years and that was make us proud to wear our uniforms again in public. During the Carter years military folks didn’t like being seen off base in uniform. We were looked down upon as second class citizens and treated as such by the administration. President Regan changed all that. He was the greatest president this country ever had and I am honored to have served under him.
That is great Bob I am so glad. I agree with you, Reagan was the greatest President in my lifetime. The heck with Carter, I was always proud of all of you and tons of others were too. Carter can go jump in a lake.
Golly I sure liked Reagan. He shrugged off personal attacks and stayed the course. And, his statements were common sense classics.
One thing- supposedly Reagan stated his biggest regret was signing the 1986 Immigration Amnesty Bill. Something Bush is ready to do gleefully. Maybe Bush should read more Reagan and less Vincente Fox.
That would be great Tom, if Bush was more Reagan then Fox.
In Memoriam: Ronald Reagan
Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of President Ronald Reagan. The ladies of The Cotillion have honored the memory of President Reagan with some excellent posts.