Ronald Reagan Born 100 Years Ago

Born February 6, 1911

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

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There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

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"And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.

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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.

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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

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Above quotes from Brainy Quotes

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Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" speech October 1964

"This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

it's what Reagan meant at the close of his first inaugural when he said the crisis of our time requires "our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds; to believe that together, with God's help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us. And, after all, why shouldn't we believe that? We are Americans."

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/01/speaking-heart-reagan-touched-hearts-americans#ixzz1CZ0Z89pR