Ronald Reagan actually said...

"We who had preceded you had just gotten so busy that we let things get out of hand."

"When great causes are on the move in the world . . . we learn we are spirits, not animals, and that something is going on in space and time, and beyond space and time, which, whether we like it or not..."

"Don't let today's doom criers and cynics persuade you that the best is past, that from here on it's all downhill."

"You are graduating from a great private, or, if you will, independent university."