~ Ronald Reagan Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically but behind them is the hand of God.

[MysteRy]

Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.

[MysteRy]

In an atmosphere of liberty artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

[MysteRy]

Our natural inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government and freedom has never been so fragile so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

[MysteRy]

The West will not contain Communism it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it we'll dismiss it as a sad bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.

[MysteRy]

It is the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism- Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

[MysteRy]

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.

[MysteRy]

We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.

[MysteRy]

Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees tinsel and reindeers but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.

[MysteRy]

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you and say as a nation thank you for your courage.

[MysteRy]

Freedom is the recognition that no single person no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth but that every individual life is infinitely precious that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

[MysteRy]

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.

[MysteRy]

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'

[MysteRy]

We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule that government by an elite group is superior to government for by and of the people. Well if no one among us is capable of government himself then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

[MysteRy]

America is no stronger than its people - and that means you and me. Well I believe in you and I believe that if we work together then one day we will say ``We fought the good fight. We finished the race We kept the faith.'' And to our children and our children's children we can say ``We did all that could be done in the brief time that was given to us here on earth.