One year ago, one of the greatest Presidents our country has seen, passed away. I have compiled some of his wittiest, funniest, truest, and all around greatest quotes President Reagan has uttered. There are so many, I’ll have to type a second article. God truly has blessed the USA with people like him.
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. Ronald Reagan
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. Ronald Reagan
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. Ronald Reagan How can a president not be an actor?
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. Ronald Reagan
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. Ronald Reagan Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years. Ronald Reagan
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. Ronald Reagan
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Ronald Reagan
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. Ronald Reagan
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. Ronald Reagan
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. Ronald Reagan
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them. Ronald Reagan
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement. Ronald Reagan
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. Ronald Reagan I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. Ronald Reagan
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. Ronald Reagan
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. Ronald Reagan
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong. Ronald Reagan
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. Ronald Reagan
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Ronald Reagan
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. Ronald Reagan
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. Ronald Reagan
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. Ronald Reagan
You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. Ronald Reagan
Undoubtedly you know about the boycott today. Across the nation illegal aliens are parading the streets, boycotting all things American. I'll take that back, not only are illeagals boycotting, but fellow Americans- liberals- are boycotting, too. What has gotten into this country? Does no one understand what the word ILLEAGAL means? This whole issue of illegal immigration just drives me insane; Mexicans sneaking across our southern border, infiltrating the country and demanding we change our society to appeal to them! Illegal immigration is accepted as a regular thing. Practically half of CA (where I live) is now speaking Spanish! There are even schools now that teach Spanish before English, leaving the kids not knowing how to speak the language of the country that they were born in! But that's no matter because you don't need to know English if you know Spanish because everything here is translated into Spanish! I don't know about you, wherever you live, but California is almost Mexifornia now! It's ridiculous!!
My grandparents and their parents were immigrants, and they waited their turn and did all they had to become part of our country. I completely respect people like that. But now all those waiting to become part of America have to wait longer because the aliens are taking their places. I am perfectly fine with legal immigrants, America is the melting pot; meaning everyone chip in, but melt and become American and give up your past nationality. Whatever happened to "Proud to be American?" Now liberal Americans forsake their own country and even seek to deface it. You can't even call them Americans the way they support the downfall of America.
Whatever happened to days like the 40's when morale was high and everyone had a zeal for our nation. If you compare the success of the economy and the nation in general in days when America was greatly supported to that of now, you see why we have problems like this. But liberal America has got us in all this mess; they couldn't recognize what the word illegal means. In the papers, and elsewhere, it is even said that "we should see what we can do to honor these people" Not only are they committing the crime of coming here illegally, their coming out in the streets and saying they're proud of it. And we let them go? That's like saying, for example: -Shoplifting should be made legal. Plenty of people do it. It happens all the time. You should give amnesty to all shoplifters. You'll never track them all down. In fact, don't even call it stealing, or shoplifting for that matter, it's acquiring. Shoplifting is an unkind word, let alone stealing. They just never knew any better. They need help and no one gives it so they acquire things from the store without payment. In fact, we should help them out and give them welfare because they are so bad off. We should boycott all shopkeepers' stores that don't allow shoplifting. - See how stupid that sounds? Why would anyone want shoplifting made legal, it's the same with illegal immigrants. Yet they still walk out and proclaim they're proud of it. They're proud to break the law.
Now across the nation, Mexicans and liberals are parading the streets, boycotting American products and not going to work. They get off free not only for being here illegally, but not coming to work. No, not many were, are or will be fired, it's accepted. Children are even encouraged to join their walk out, skipping school. This week is star testing, and though these students should be tested, schools are taking the courtesy of supporting something illegal by postponing the test, leaving no consequences to the children, taking their chance to skip school!
They call it "A day without an Illegal" as if we desperately depended on them. What happened before they started coming over? We were doing quite well, actually. The ironic part is that Mexico runs strict border control on their southern border, while the northern they are encouraging Mexican citizens to sneak across. This posses a huge threat. At any time a terrorist can infiltrate and who would know? If we were to go to war with Mexico, whose side do you think all the illegals would take? Those that aren't working merely receive our tax dollars in welfare checks. In fact, those who are working can't very well be fired or deported, because of roadblocks set up by the liberals. Liberals have driven the problem down so deep that now you can't deport illegals without consequences. Say you deport all illegals, well by now you can't do that without getting rid of a lot of cheap labor, thus goes up the price of ordinary goods. So you have to lower, in fact get rid of, minimum wage. Minimum wages cause many American businesses to pay their employees more than they can afford. Next step is to reduce welfare to only the disabled or short term unemployed so our tax dollars are no longer going to support illegals on welfare. Then the IRS needs to be dissolved. This can be done simply by instating a VAT tax. But I would much rather pay eight dollars for a head of lettuce than pay the thousands for all their Medicaid, welfare, etc.
Our problem is that the unions won't let any of this happen. Unions make much impossible and tie us up even more. Get rid of these and America still has a chance to knock sense into those who say the illegal should be made legal, the wrong made right. What we can do against this is to buy American, vote republican and hope they keep boycotting. After all, if they don't buy American things, they will soon learn how hard is to live in this country without.
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