February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004

Ronald Reagan



A great president.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."

"We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems."

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."

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

"Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls. You'll stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision it might be well if you would ask yourself: Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth."



With a great sense of humor.

"I hope you're all Republicans." -to surgeons as he entered the operating room following his assassination attempt.

"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying."


We miss you, Mr. President.

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