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Goodbye to Mr. Reagan, and Godspeed on your journey.

You will be missed.

"O stranger passing by,
go tell the Lacedaemonians that here,
faithful to their bidding, we lie"

Epitath of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae

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There is much I can write about this man, but it would not be enough or do what he did for this country, and the free world enough justice.

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"Some pup"
Nickname by Fenderstrat72

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Evil is evil, no matter how small.

To he that slew the Soviet bear...

I don't just think outside the box...I turn it inside out with my mind.

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"The power to Destroy the planet, is insignifigant to the power of the Air Force----Mudd Vader

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"They'll fight you. They'll fight each other if your not around."

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To the man who restored pride to America after the Vietnam catastrophe and put the last nail in the coffin of the Soviet monster:
Your admirers and your detractors owe you their gratitude.


Thank you and God Bless.

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By this time tomorrow I shall have gained either a pearage or Westminster Abbey........Nelson

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YGBSM !

Thank you for the memories, the pride, and believing in America. Your optomism formed the lives of my generation as the first president we ever knew. Forever you will be apart of our hearts, and who we are.

God Bless Ronald Reagan and Thank You. Godspeed

We love you, Ronnie...

ATTACK!!!!!!!

"and put the last nail in the coffin of the Soviet monster:"

I think it's fair to say The Gipper put all the nails in the Soviet Coffin.

"O stranger passing by,
go tell the Lacedaemonians that here,
faithful to their bidding, we lie"

Epitath of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae

How about this one:

"Message to terrorists everywhere, you can run, but you can't hide..."

And they weren't able too. Anyone remember the Egypt Air 737 that had some 6th Fleet F-14s pull up alongside it and force it down in Italy? We had the guys onboard cornered, until the Italians let them go.

Here is a little list of some of Reagans quotes. The man was an extraordinary speaker, and an extraordinary leader.

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

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"You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing is worth dying for, when did this begin...? Should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots of Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain!"

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"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US congress."

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"Back in the '20's, Will Rogers had an answer for those who believed that strength invited war. He said, 'I've never seen anyone insult Jack Dempsey'"

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"We will remember, we will always be proud, we will always be prepared, so that we may always be free."

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"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."
- Said during a radio microphone test, 1984


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"Facts are stupid things."

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

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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." </b>




He will be sorely missed.

"O stranger passing by,
go tell the Lacedaemonians that here,
faithful to their bidding, we lie"

Epitath of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae

My favorite quote:
<i>The ones who embrace communism read the works of Marx and Lenin. The ones who are anti-communist understand the works of Marx and Lenin. </i>

<u>Dutch</u>
The Soviet Union was gradually decaying little by little during and after the Vietnam War, though Brezhnev massively built-up its defenses. The buck stopped with Reagan and he delt the final death blow to the Soviets so they could never, ever recover to being recognized as a super power. He took funds from domestic services and put em' in defense, out spending the hell out of them. He knew that our founding fathers originaly wanted the role of government to protect the people and not as a mommy-figure.

<b>I can't say enough about this man!!!
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Edited by - tritonal on Jun 05 2004 10:54 PM

IMHO the greatest President this country has ever had...Say what you want, but Ronald Reagan could have led this country through any situation in the history of the United States just as good, if not better than any of his predecesors did, and none would have pulled off such strength with humility as he did to stare down the Soviet Union. I have missed the man for 10 years, may he rest in peace.

Do we have any more room on Mt Rushmore?
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Never knew the guy in any way, but I'll take him over Kerry and day.

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI

More quotes:

Reagan In His Own Words

Saturday, June 05, 2004

Nicknamed "the Great Communicator," Ronald Reagan was both one of the best political orators of the 20th Century and a self-deprecating wit. Following is a collection of some classic Reaganisms.

• "I did turn 75 today -- but remember, that's only 24 Celsius."

• "It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

• "A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist."

• To wife Nancy after John Hinckley, Jr.'s 1981 assassination attempt: "Honey, I forgot to duck."

• During a 1984 debate with Walter Mondale: "I'm not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."

• "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."

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

• In testing the microphone for his weekly radio address, Reagan declared, ''My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today I've just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.''

• "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."

• "Mr. President," TV reporter Sam Donaldson yelled out at Reagan after a 1982 press conference, "In talking about the continuing recession tonight, you have blamed the mistakes of the past and you've blamed Congress. Does any of the blame belong to you?" Reagan responded, "Yes, because for many years I was a Democrat."

• "Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work -- work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it."

• "Well, this administration's objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy that provides equal opportunity for all Americans, with no barriers born of bigotry or discrimination."

• "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."

• "I hope you're all Republicans," he told doctors who were about to operate on his bullet wounds.

• "Did we forget that government is the people's business, and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of taxes paid?"

• "We do not have a trillion dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough. We have a trillion dollar debt because we spend too much."

• "But with these considerations firmly in mind, I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."

• "Abortion is advocated only by persons who themselves have been born."

• "Politics is a very rewarding profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."

• "America is too great for small dreams."

• "We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we can always be free."

• "Government growing beyond our consent had become a lumbering giant, slamming shut the gates of opportunity, threatening to crush the very roots of our freedom."

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI

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PRESS TO TEST

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RR was the first president I really took any notice of, he was a man among men. As the press falls all over itself gushing about what a great guy he was I'll remind us of a few things they and others said about him at the time of his presidency.

He was a cowboy who was gonna nuke russia and destroy the world.

He lived in a fantacy world left over from his career in the movies, and all his "original" ideas came from the movies.

And my favorite, he was the anti-christ because his names Ronald Wilson Reagan all had 6 letters in them and thus 666 <img src=newicons/Whatever_anim.gif border=0 align=middle>

you are already missed big guy <S

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"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us". George Orwell

Fighting For Justice With Brains Of Steel !
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God bless a great man and great president and most of all a great American.
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Fender
"A woman drove me to drink
and I hadn't even the courtesy to thank her".
W.C. Fields

Edited by - Fenderstrat72 on Jun 06 2004 12:41 PM

You see how the press talks now of his greatness and the prosperity brought on by his tax cuts.

Some where in the Democratic Party someone is asking Ronnie why could you not have waited until December. I am just waiting for Teddy Kennedy to tell us how great Mr. Regan was. They villified him in life, and want to jump on his legacy in death.

Thank God we had you to do the tough things, stand through the protest, and in your wit out law communism. The Russian feared you because you said what you meant and did not budge. But now even Gorbechev morns your loss as a statesment, and worthy partner for peace.

PEGGY NOONAN
WHAT I SAW AT THE REVOLUTION
1989

"Every now and then when I worked in the Reagan White House, I would look up from my notes at a meeting and look at the faces around the table...or go for a walk in the halls and look into the offices of young men and women with their heads bent over a report or a memo...and I would think: "We are the ones who will walk behind the caisson. Some day when we are older he will die, and there will be a great funeral with a flag-draped coffin and a riderless horse with the boots turned backward, and behind that will be the family and friends, and behind them, us." The television cameras high up near the plywood anchor booths hastily assembled on Pennsylvania Avenue will go to a wide shot, and Dan Rather will say, "And here, the men and women who were the special assistants and the undersecretaries... When you say 'Reagan Administration,' you're talking about them."

"It wouldn't be sad. I could even imagine it as jolly. He would die with his boots on, "having known not...bitterness nor defeat." He would just have turned one hundred... He would have lived to see the Communist world break up, and seen us build the manned space station. An old man exhausted in a great struggle, one of the leaders of the Eighties we now, in the year 2011, acknowledge to have been great. Reagan, Thatcher, John Paul II, perhaps Gorbachev...dead now, and here we are gathered once again, like the end of 'Chariots of Fire', where one of the old running stars, bent and gray, turns to a friend at Harold Abraham's funeral and says, 'We did it, didn't we?' as the stern chords of 'Jerusalem' boom from the Cathedral."

I voted for the man, twice, because I belived in his vision. I was proud to call him "boss" when I entered federal service. He took the high road, regardless of the trail or terrain.
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"Live every day like it's the last, 'cause one day you're gonna be right!" Ray Charles

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