Political Quotes

“distinguished colleagues, today is President Ronald Reagan's 91st birthday. Please join me in wishing Mrs. Reagan the very best today and expressing to her, and the President, the gratitude of freedom-loving peoples everywhere for his service to our Nation and the cause of liberty. On September 1, 1976, Ronald Reagan delivered a radio address entitled ``Shaping the World for 100 Years to Come.'' In this brief address the future President defined the challenges that lay before the American people as a choice between individual freedom or state control of our very lives. At that time in the life of our country it wasn't at all clear that the American people would continue to choose the path of individual freedom, with all its perils and responsibilities, over the comforts of a paternalistic government. It seemed that as government grew, individual liberty shrank. As taxes grew, personal initiative was discouraged and the entrepreneurial American spirit was being stifled by a government that no longer seemed to be of the people, by the people and for the people. Just as he called Americans to take charge of their individual destinies that day Ronald Reagan also spoke of the international challenges facing our country, in particular the horrible threat of nuclear war.”