 A graduate of Eureka College, IL, 1932, he announced for radio stations in Iowa.
He married Jane Wyman and had children Maureen and Michael.
He was a Captain in the U.S. Army Air Corp during World War II, then became an actor, appearing in over 50 films.
He was President of the Screen Actors Guild, switched from Democrat to Republican, and became Governor of California.
His second marriage, to Nancy Davis, 1952, had children Patti and Ron.
His name was Ronald Reagan, born FEBRUARY 6, 1911, and died June 5, 2004.
At age sixty-nine, he was the oldest person elected U.S. President, and
sixty-nine days after his inauguration, he survived an assassination
attempt.
Ronald Reagan stated at St. John's University in New York, March 28, 1985:
"Government that is big enough to give you everything you want is more likely to simply take everything you've got."
Ronald Reagan remarked to the Heritage Council, Warren, Michigan, October 10, 1984:
"Henry David Thoreau was right: that government is best which governs least."
In his 1964 speech, A Time for Choosing, Ronald Reagan stated:
"I suggest to you there is no left or right, only an up or down. Up to
the maximum of individual freedom consistent with law and order, or
down to the ant heap of totalitarianism;
and regardless of
their humanitarian purpose, those who would sacrifice freedom for
security have, whether they know it or not, chosen this downward path."
In 1961, Ronald Reagan stated:
"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a
people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical
program as a humanitarian project...
James Madison in
1788...said: '...There are more instances of the abridgment of the
freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in
power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.'...
What can we
do about this?...We can write to our congressmen and our senators. We
can say right now that we want no further encroachment on these
individual liberties and freedoms...We do not want socialized
medicine...
If you don't, this program I promise you will
pass...and behind it will come other federal programs that will invade
every area of freedom as we have known...until, one day...we will awake
to find that we have socialism.
And...you and I are going to
spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's
children, what it once was like in America when men were free."
Ronald Reagan stated in Beijing, China, April 27, 1984:
"I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies
glorify the arbitrary power of the state...But both theories fail. Both
deny those God-given liberties that are the inalienable right of each
person on this planet, indeed, they deny the existence of God."
On March 20, 1981, at the Conservative Political Action Conference
Dinner, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC, Ronald Reagan stated:
"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid. That's why the Marxist
vision of man without God must eventually be seen as an empty and a
false faith - the second oldest in the world - first proclaimed in the
Garden of Eden with whispered words...'Ye shall be as gods.'
The crisis of the Western world...exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God."
On May 17, 1982, in a proposed Constitutional Amendment on Prayer in Schools, President Ronald Reagan stated:
"Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God."
President Reagan proclaimed:
"Now, therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of
America, in recognition of the contributions and influence of the Bible
on our Republic and our people, do hereby proclaim 1983 the 'Year of
the Bible' in the United States. I encourage all citizens, each in his
or her own way, to reexamine and rediscover its priceless and timeless
message."
"Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some
men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should be
slaves...
Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when
some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned
to abortion."
At the Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series, 1982, Ronald Reagan stated:
"We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a
crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day
living. I wonder if sometimes He isn't waiting for us to wake up, He
isn't maybe running out of patience."
At Reunion Arena in Dallas, 1984, Ronald Reagan stated:
"Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the
conscience....without God there is a coarsening of the society; without
God democracy will not and cannot long endure....
America
needs God more than God needs America. If we ever forget that we are
One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under."
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