Reaganisms....A Retrospective

Now that the conventions are over and we are headlong into the campaigns culminating on November 6th, election day, we thought we'd take a look back. ...President Ronald Reagan said many memorable things during his eight years in the Oval Office. These are just a few that are in stark contrast to the views of our current president.

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN

• “Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it, and hell where they already have it.”

• “Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”

• “Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.”

• “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

• “Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

• “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.”

• “No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth.”

• “It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” (The oldest, of course, being prostitution.)

• “Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book." 

• “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.”

• “If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”

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