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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

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.