Ronald Reagan said:

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You don't realize how much you miss him, until you read and remember some of the stuff he said and stood for:



"Here's my strategy on the Cold

War: We win, they lose."

- Ronald Reagan



"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
- Ronald Reagan



"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan




"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan




"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."- Ronald Reagan




"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan



"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." - Ronald Reagan





"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." - Ronald Reagan



"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting." - Ronald Reagan



"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan



"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." - Ronald Reagan



"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." - Ronald Reagan



"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. - Ronald Reagan


"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

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The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. ~Ronald Reagan


History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. ~Ronald Reagan


People do not make wars; governments do. ~Ronald Reagan


...no mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology. ~Ronald Reagan

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. ~Ronald Reagan



"Perhaps we didn't appreciate fully enough the depth of the hatred and the complexity of the problems that made the Middle East such a jungle. Perhaps the idea of a suicide car bomber committing mass murder to gain instant entry to Paradise was so foreign to our own values and consciousness that it did not create in us the concern for the Marines' safety that it should have. In the weeks immediately after the bombing, I believed the last thing that we should do was turn tail and leave. Yet the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics forced us to rethink our policy there. If there would be some rethinking of policy before our men die, we would be a lot better off. If that policy had changed towards more of a neutral position and neutrality, those 241 Marines would be alive today."-- Ronald Reagan's Autobiography