Great Quotes from the Gipper…

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois on this day in 1911. Though no longer with us, his wit, wisdom and words live on…

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Isn’t it strange that … people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there’s only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in?

Most [tax revisions] didn’t improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself: complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

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.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‘fat cat’ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‘public-spirited philanthropist’.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15.

- All from Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004