Sunday, June 25, 2023

Ronald Reagan at 110: Twenty of His Best Quotes on Freedom, Government, and America by Lawrence Reed

Recommendable!

"... For the most part, and more than any of his fellow presidents since Coolidge, Reagan knew that there was no loftier achievement for any society than freedom. ..."

Perhaps, Reagan's most famous and very true quote:
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don’t do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free. – 1961"

This is another great and true quote:
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time 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 governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? – 1981"

Ronald Reagan at 110: Twenty of His Best Quotes on Freedom, Government, and America - Foundation for Economic Education

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