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06/05/2004: "Reagan quotes"
Google Reagan Quotes and the get lucky entry leads to this official looking page of Reagan quotes. My favorites:
| Occasion: | Quote: |
| Republican National Convention, 1992. | When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale. |
| This fellow they've nominated claims he's the new Thomas Jefferson. Well let me tell you something; I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine and Governor... You're no Thomas Jefferson! | |
| To surgeons as he entered the operating room, March 30, 1981 | I hope you're all Republicans. |
| Speech to Britain's Parliament, June, 1982 | It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history.... [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism- Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people. |
| Remarks at Human Rights Day event, December 10, 1986 | The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket. |
| Remarks in Arlington, Virginia, September 25, 1987 | 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. |
| Speech near the Berlin Wall, 1987 | Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! |
Rest in Peace, Mr. President. You are missed.
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More great quotes in a Command Post editorial discussion.
