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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: arno who wrote (13971)	6/11/2004 11:23:00 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

What a great 93 year ride he had Sad but Proud

To: arno who wrote (13971)	6/11/2004 11:26:15 PM
From: arno	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

Quotes of Ronald Reagan “When a business or individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill.” “It is our earnest prayer to serve America in peace. It’s our solemn commitment to defend her in a time of war.” “Common sense told us that when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. So we cut the people’s tax rates, and the people produced more than ever before.” “I have often said that the tide of the future is the freedom tide.” “A grocer’s markup includes a share of the property tax on the store. But the truth is the wholesale price the storekeeper paid to the bakery included its taxes, and more than 150 other going all the way back to the farmer who raised the wheat. If he can’t get a price for his wheat that will cover the real estate tax on his farm, he can’t stay in business either. If the trucker who hauled the wheat can’t charge enough to cover his license fee and gasoline tax, he can’t stay in business either.” “Excessive taxation of individuals has robbed us of incentive.” “Freedom is not created by government, nor is it a gift from those in political power. It is, in fact, secured more than anything else by limitations placed on those in government.” “The American future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted. It belongs to the brave.” "This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks." “The only consistency in the tax system is that once a tax is imposed, it is never rescinded.” “You know, when I called the Soviet Union an Evil Empire, I meant it.” “For some time now, I’ve been convinced that there is a great hunger on the part of our people for a spiritual revival in this land.” "We are not a warlike people. Quite the opposite. We always seek to live in peace. We resort to force infrequently and with great reluctance, and only after we have determined that it is absolutely necessary. We are awed by the forces of destruction loose in the world in the nuclear era, but neither can we be naïve or foolish. Four times in my lifetime America has gone to war, bleeding the lives of its young men into the sands of beachheads, the fields of Europe, and the jungles and rice paddies of Asia. We know only too well that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong, but when they are weak. It is then that tyrants are tempted." “If history teaches us anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.” “The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: that in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer.” “Sometimes bureaucracy’s excesses are so great we laugh at them, but they are costly laughs.” “The truth is, Washington has taken over functions that don’t truly belong to it. In almost every case it has been a failure.” “I’ve always thought that the common sense and wisdom of the federal government were summed up in a sign they used to have hanging on the Hoover Dam. It said, ‘Government property. Do not remove.’” “Communism works only in heaven where they don’t need it, and in hell where they already have it.” “I still look over my shoulder when I’m walking out of the White House and the Marines are saluting and all, and I say, ‘Who, me?’” “When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for the future.” "A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets rough." "I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other." "There is no question that we have failed to live up to the dreams of the Founding Fathers many times and in many places. Sometimes we do better than others. But all in all, the one thing we must be on guard against is thinking that because of this, the system has failed. The system has not failed. Some human beings have failed the system."