Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Quote of the Day -- II

This one via The Wall Street Journal's Political Diary:
"Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying" -- from a 1981 entry in the soon-to-be published diaries of President Ronald Reagan, quoted in today's Washington Post.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Happy Birthday, Ronald Reagan

PapaFunk writes:
He overcame considerable odds to give America and the world the priceless gift of expanding liberty and though it, global prosperity. But as RR always said freedom is never more than one generation from extinction and it appears that the bad actors of history are about to test us and challenge once again the core of our beliefs.
More good reading, courtesy of Kathryn Lopez, available here.

UPDATE: A clip from the speech that elevated him to a statesman: