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In Memoriam: President Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) |
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Reagan in His Own Words - from "The Speech" that Began His Political Career to His Farewell Presidential Address... |
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More Than 2 Dozen Blogs Highlighting Editorials and Columns Praising President Reagan's Life and Legacy |
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Friday, August 11, 2006, Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Reagan tax cuts Wednesday, June 16, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Another well-deserved tribute for Ronald Reagan. Monday, June 14, 2004, The Market Center Blog, The Left was wrong about Reagan, and now they try to damn him with faint praise. Monday, June 14, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Reagan did not hold his finger in the wind. Sunday, June 13, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Sore losers on the left. Friday, June 11, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Milton Friedman praises Ronald Reagan. Friday, June 11, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Lech Walesa on Ronald Reagan. Friday, June 11, 2004, The Market Center Blog, The Economist pays tribute to Ronald Reagan. Thursday, June 10, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Leading US economist lauds President Reagan. Thursday, June 10, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Reagan's unappreciated record on spending. Thursday, June 10, 2004, The Market Center Blog, A Reagan victory in South Carolina? Wednesday, June 9, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Even left-wing cities are learning the lesson of Reaganomics. Wednesday, June 9, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Praise for another Reagan accomplishment. Wednesday, June 9, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Reagan's victory over communism. Wednesday, June 9, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Reagan remembered by ordinary Americans. Tuesday, June 8, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Reagan's global impact. Tuesday, June 8, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Reagan had the proper understanding of liberty and individual rights. Tuesday, June 8, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Reagan's other amazing achievements. Tuesday, June 8, 2004, The Market Center Blog, The value of speaking the truth. Monday, June 7, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Former Reagan speechwriter lauds Reagan's accomplishments. Monday, June 7, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Reagan restored American values. Monday, June 7, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Reagan's incredible economic accomplishments. Monday, June 7, 2004, The Market Center Blog, The Reagan economic recovery helped end communism. Monday, June 7, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Ronald Reagan restored capitalism. Sunday, June 6, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Ronald Reagan's tremendous legacy. Sunday, June 6, 2004, The Market Center Blog, Reagan rolled back totalitarianism and won the Cold War. Sunday, June 6, 2004, Washington Post, By Lou Cannon, Actor, Governor, President, Icon Sunday. June 6, 2004, BBC News, Ronald Reagan: In his own words |
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Remarks from Ronald Reagan's 1964 speech for Barry Goldwater: "[T]he full power of centralized government"--this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They knew that governments don't control things. A government can't
control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those Founding Fathers, that outside of
its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy. ...No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched,
never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this Earth. ...Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to
be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp ...Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us that they
have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy "accommodation." And they say if we only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he will forget his evil ways and learn
to love us. ... Ronald Reagan's Farewell Presidential Address in 1989: It was back in 1981, and I was attending my first big economic summit, which was held that year in Canada. The meeting place rotates among the member countries. The opening meeting was a formal
dinner for the heads of government of the seven industrialized nations. Now, I sat there like the new kid in school and listened, and it was all Francois this and Helmut that. They dropped titles and spoke to
one another on a first-name basis. Well, at one point I sort of leaned in and said, "My name's Ron." Well, in that same year, we began the actions we felt would ignite an economic comeback--cut taxes
and regulation, started to cut spending. And soon the recovery began. Two years later another economic summit, with pretty much the same cast. At the big opening meeting we all got together, and all of a sudden,
just for a moment, I saw that everyone was just sitting there looking at me. And one of them broke the silence. "Tell us about the American miracle," he said. ...Common sense told us that when you put
a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. So, we cut the people's tax rates, and the people produced more than ever before. The economy bloomed like a plant that had been cut back and could now
grow quicker and stronger. Our economic program brought about the longest peacetime expansion in our history: real family income up, the poverty rate down, entrepreneurship booming, and an explosion in research
and new technology. We're exporting more than ever because American industry became more competitive and at the same time, we summoned the national will to knock down protectionist walls abroad instead of
erecting them at home. ...Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: "We the people." "We the people"
tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. "We the people" are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's
constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which "We the people" tell the government what it is allowed to do.
"We the people" are free. ...when I began, it seemed to me that we'd begun reversing the order of things--that through more and more rules and regulations and confiscatory taxes, the government was
taking more of our money, more of our options, and more of our freedom. I went into politics in part to put up my hand and say, "Stop." I was a citizen politician, and it seemed the right thing for a
citizen to do. ...There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.
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