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Old 06-17-2011, 04:57 AM
 
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  • [SIZE=3]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.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]People don't start wars, governments do.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]Above all, we must realize that 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. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes (Joking during a test before one of his radio addresses.)[/SIZE]
  • [SIZE=3]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.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]The nine most terrifying words in the English language are... I'm from the government and I'm here to help.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]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.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.[/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall![/SIZE]

  • [SIZE=3]I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there. That’s how I saw it, and see it still.[/SIZE]
LMAO!!!

Surely you jest:

09/30/2009 $11,909,829,003,511.75(80% Of All Debt Across 232 Years Borrowed By Reagan And Bushes)

09/30/2008 $10,024,724,896,912.49(Times Square Debt Clock Modified To Accomodate Tens of Trillions)

09/30/2007 $9,007,653,372,262.48
09/30/2006 $8,506,973,899,215.23
09/30/2005 $7,932,709,661,723.50
09/30/2004 $7,379,052,696,330.32

09/30/2003 $6,783,231,062,743.62(Second Bush Tax Cuts Enacted Using Reconciliation To Block Democratic Filibuster)

09/30/2002 $6,228,235,965,597.16

09/30/2001 $5,807,463,412,200.06(First Bush Tax Cuts Enacted Using Reconciliation To Block Democratic Filibuster)

09/30/2000 $5,674,178,209,886.86(Administration And Congress Arguing About How To Use Surplus, read HR 4601, off budget use of surplus to pay down debt)

09/30/1999 $5,656,270,901,615.43(First Surplus Generated...On Track To Pay Off Debt By 2012)

09/30/1998 $5,526,193,008,897.62
09/30/1997 $5,413,146,011,397.34
09/30/1996 $5,224,810,939,135.73
09/29/1995 $4,973,982,900,709.39
09/30/1994 $4,692,749,910,013.32
09/30/1993 $4,411,488,883,139.38

09/30/1992 $4,064,620,655,521.66(Debt Quadrupled By Reagan/Bush41)

09/30/1991 $3,665,303,351,697.03
09/28/1990 $3,233,313,451,777.25
09/29/1989 $2,857,430,960,187.32
09/30/1988 $2,602,337,712,041.16
09/30/1987 $2,350,276,890,953.00
09/30/1986 $2,125,302,616,658.42
09/30/1985 $1,823,103,000,000.00
09/30/1984 $1,572,266,000,000.00
09/30/1983 $1,377,210,000,000.00

09/30/1982 $1,142,034,000,000.00(Total Debt Passes $1 Trillion)

09/30/1981 $997,855,000,000.00
09/30/1980 $907,701,000,000.00


09/30/1979 $826,519,000,000.00
09/30/1978 $771,544,000,000.00
09/30/1977 $698,840,000,000.00
06/30/1976 $620,433,000,000.00
06/30/1975 $533,189,000,000.00
06/30/1974 $475,059,815,731.55
06/30/1973 $458,141,605,312.09
06/30/1972 $427,260,460,940.50
06/30/1971 $398,129,744,455.54
06/30/1970 $370,918,706,949.93
06/30/1969 $353,720,253,841.41
06/30/1968 $347,578,406,425.88
06/30/1967 $326,220,937,794.54
06/30/1966 $319,907,087,795.48
06/30/1965 $317,273,898,983.64
06/30/1964 $311,712,899,257.30
06/30/1963 $305,859,632,996.41
06/30/1962 $298,200,822,720.87
06/30/1961 $288,970,938,610.05
06/30/1960 $286,330,760,848.37
06/30/1959 $284,705,907,078.22
06/30/1958 $276,343,217,745.81
06/30/1957 $270,527,171,896.43
06/30/1956 $272,750,813,649.32
06/30/1955 $274,374,222,802.62
06/30/1954 $271,259,599,108.46
06/30/1953 $266,071,061,638.57
06/30/1952 $259,105,178,785.43
06/29/1951 $255,221,976,814.93
06/30/1950 $257,357,352,351.04
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Old 06-17-2011, 05:47 AM
 
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"We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever."

Ronald Reagan
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Old 06-17-2011, 06:16 AM
 
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These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.
Ronald Regan declared while introducing the Taliban leaders to media on the White house lawns in 1985.

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Old 06-17-2011, 08:49 AM
 
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Reagan was an idiot. GOOD RIDDANCE.
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Old 06-17-2011, 09:00 AM
 
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Reagan the greatest president? Greater than Lincoln or Washington? I doubt it.
Eh, there's things about Lincoln that you could argue were bad for the nation, such as allowing corporations to have the same rights as citizens and allowing individuals to hide behind them for poor business decision that negatively affect others. He also allowed the tariff policies that forced the south into succession and caused a devastatingly brutal war.

My top presidents:

Thomas Jefferson - Evisioned American as an "empire of liberty"
Andrew Jackson - Fought and abolished the central banking system as he knew the true dangers of such an entity. (You know you're doing a good job when special interests are attempting to take your life multiple times.)
James Madison - Father of the Constitution
John Quincy Adams - Known for his excellent diplomacy
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Old 06-17-2011, 09:04 AM
 
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More Reagan quotes:

"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. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression -- to preserve freedom and peace."


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A sober review of Reagan's presidency doesn't yield the seamlessly conservative record being peddled today. Federal government expanded on his watch. The conservative desire to outlaw abortion was never seriously pursued. Reagan broke with the hardliners in his administration and compromised with the Soviets on arms control. His assault on entitlements never materialized; instead he saved Social Security in 1983. And he repeatedly ignored the fundamental conservative dogma that taxes should never be raised.
Reagan's Liberal legacy
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Old 06-17-2011, 09:14 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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YouTube - ‪Reagan Campaigns for Truman in 1948‬‏
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Old 06-17-2011, 09:38 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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YouTube - ‪Ronald Reagan A Socialist?‬‏
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Old 06-17-2011, 10:36 AM
 
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Ronald Regan declared while introducing the Taliban leaders to media on the White house lawns in 1985.
They really need to do something about you spamwads.

Apparently if it doesn't stick in one thread just move along and repeat in the next.
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Old 06-17-2011, 10:38 AM
 
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Originally Posted by jojajn View Post
More Reagan quotes:

"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. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression -- to preserve freedom and peace."


Also:


Reagan's Liberal legacy
Amazing how you always show up to talk about how liberal Reagan was and yet you still seem to hate him.

A little confused?
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