"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes"
Ronald Wilson Reagan
February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004
Ronald Reagan was born Born in Tampico, Illinois on February 6, 1911. Before becoming Governor of California and later President of the United States, Reagan made his career in both tv and in films. He also served as president of the "Screen Actors Guild".
Although Reagan is considered the voice of the Republican conservative movement, he actually was a democrat untill 1962. In 1966, he ran and won as the 33rd governor of California, a feat he later repeated in 1970.
After running for President of the United States and losing his bids in 1968 and 1976; he was finally successful in 1980 and again in 1984, becoming the country's 40th President (landslide victories in both).
Reagan left office in 1989 and was succeeded by his Vice President, George H. W. Bush. 5 years later in 1994, he revealed he had Alzheimer's disease and eventually succumbed 10 yrs later at the age of 93.
His impact on conservative and traditional values can still be felt today (his name often invoked by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle). Although, Reagan is no longer with us, his spirit still lives on.
"Goodbye, god bless you and god bless the United States", Ronald Reagan.
Although Reagan is considered the voice of the Republican conservative movement, he actually was a democrat untill 1962. In 1966, he ran and won as the 33rd governor of California, a feat he later repeated in 1970.
After running for President of the United States and losing his bids in 1968 and 1976; he was finally successful in 1980 and again in 1984, becoming the country's 40th President (landslide victories in both).
Reagan left office in 1989 and was succeeded by his Vice President, George H. W. Bush. 5 years later in 1994, he revealed he had Alzheimer's disease and eventually succumbed 10 yrs later at the age of 93.
His impact on conservative and traditional values can still be felt today (his name often invoked by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle). Although, Reagan is no longer with us, his spirit still lives on.
"Goodbye, god bless you and god bless the United States", Ronald Reagan.
Quotes
- "Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born"
- "Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States"
- "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"
- "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"
- "I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves"
- "I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life"
- "No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women"
- "People don't start wars, governments do"
- "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first"
- "The 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"
- "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help"
- "There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder"
- "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"
- "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"
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