Ronald Reagan, also known as Ronaldus
Magnus
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression
is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter
loses his.
- Ronald Reagan
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a
few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving,
regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why
take the chance?
- Ronald Reagan
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're
ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
- Ronald Reagan
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve
for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth,
or we will sentence them to take the first step into a
thousand years of darkness.
- Ronald Reagan
And once when Bill was asked what job he wanted in the
Administration of his friend the President, he replied in
his typically retiring and deferential way:
"Ventriloquist."
- Ronald Reagan, referring to Bill Buckley, Jr.
Mark Twain
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth
is putting on its shoes.
- Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear
and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret
of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming
tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the
first one.
- Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So
throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover.
- Mark Twain
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could
hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to
be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned
in seven years.
- Mark Twain
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a
long one instead.
- Mark Twain
Teddy Roosevelt
... if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes
an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be
treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is
an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of
creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated
upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and
nothing but an American ... There can be no divided
allegiances here. Any man who says he is an American, but
something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room
for but one flag, the American flag,... we have room for
but one language here, and that is the English language ...
and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a
loyalty to the American people.
- Teddy Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out
how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds
could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man
who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust
and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who
comes short again and again, because there is no effort
without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive
to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great
devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the
best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and
who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring
greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold
and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
- Teddy Roosevelt
Others
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
- Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
- His reply
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to
go where they went.
- Will Rogers
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
- Benjamin Franklin
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects
of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own
-- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human
frailty. It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of
conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to
reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which
we can dimly perceive and to try humbly to comprehend even
an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in
Nature.
- Albert Einstein
We will have peace with the Arab when he loves his children
more than he hates us.
- Golda Maer
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,
support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival
and the success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone
wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take
more than one night.'
- Charles M. Schulz
