Wise Words from RR

Somebody started an email that lists some of former president Ronald Reagan's best quotes and they're so good I thought I'd share them on VP. Here they are:

• "Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it."
• "Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."
• "The most terrifying words In the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
• "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
• "Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the US. was too strong."
• "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."
• "Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
• "The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program."
• "It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
• "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
• "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book."
• "No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
• "If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under."

Good stuff.