Nobody Remembers the Notes of Ronald Reagan

Nobody Remembers

I love historical quotes. I have at least six full books full of them…and so did Ronald Reagan evidently. He kept hundreds of notes throughout his life, and he would pull them out at speeches…mostly quotes that he liked from history. He put them on 4×5 cards and used them whenever he needed them. Douglas Brinkley gathered them up in a book called, The Notes, Ronald Reagan. And being a big Reagan fan, it’s right near my desk.

So, go through history with Ronald Reagan and enjoy, as I did, some of his favorite quotes.

(ALL of them remind me of Obama. )

WINSTON CHURCHILL —- Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse pulling a sturdy wagon.

FDR,1935: —The Fed. Govt. must & shall quit this business of relief. Continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual & moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to Nat. Fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the humans spirit.

JFK:— Our true choice is not between tax reduction on the one hand & the avoidance of large Fed. deficits on the other. Our economy stifled by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance the budget. Just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.

CICERO:—- The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered & controlled. Assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed least Rome become bankrupt. The mob should be force to work and not depend on govt. for sustenance.

VLADIMIR LENIN: —-The way to take over a country is to debauch the currency. Through a continuous policy of inflation a govt. can quietly & unobservedly confiscate the wealth of its citizens.

THOMAS JEFFERSON —The last hope of human liberty in the world rests on us. Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press.

NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV:— Despite the difference between the stages of communism and socialism no wall of any kind exists between them….communism grows from socialism & its direct continuation.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON:—- It will be of little avail to the people that laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood: if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.

EDMUND BURKE:—- It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the pub. to be the most anxious for its welfare.

LEONARD READ:—- Regardless of theoretical pretentions, socialism is nothing but the application of dictatorial power.

WILLIAM PENN: —–If men will not be governed by God (that is to be honest, truthful, diligent, fair & just to all) then they must be governed by tyrants.

CICERO: —-A nation can survive its fools & even the ambitious but it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears no traitor: he speaks in an accent familiar to his victims & wears their face & their garments…he rots the soul of the nation. He works secretly & unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city: he infect the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.

RONALD REAGAN:—- I’ll bet you—time ain’t far off when a woman won’t know anymore than a man.

RONALD REAGAN:—-I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting. 

RONALD REAGAN:—-I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s a purpose and worth to each and every life. 

May 9, 2014 - Posted by Joyanna Adams | American History, Ronald Reagan, Uncategorized | History, Ronald Reagan