Breitbart: 7 Amazing Reagan quotes that capture America's current condition

Ronald Reagan’s prescient words hold striking resonance to the dangers and maladies afflicting America today. Using social-media-style graphics, Wynton Hall covers topics from the importance of limited government to freedom's future with the beautiful clarity for which President Reagan is -- and will always be -- known.

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Zak: Ronald Reagan sums it up very nicely

GRAND OLD PARTISAN by Michael Zak - Addressing the Republican National Convention on this day [August 15th] in 1988, Ronaldus Magnus said: ∴ "Our party speaks for human freedom - for the sweep of liberties that are at the core of our existence. We do not shirk from our duties to preserve freedom so it can unfold across the world for yearning millions. ∴ We believe that lasting peace comes only through strength and not through the goodwill of our adversaries. ∴ We have a healthy skepticism of government - checking its excesses at the same time we're willing to harness its energy when it helps improve the lives of our citizens. ∴ We have pretty strong notions that higher tax receipts are no inherent right of the Federal Government. ∴ We respect the values that bind us together as families and as a nation. ∴ I believe that God put this land between the two great oceans to be found by special people from every corner of the world who had that extra love of freedom that prompted them to leave their homeland and come to this land to make it a brilliant light beam of freedom to the world."

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the country. Back to Basics for the Republican Party is his acclaimed history of the GOP, cited by Clarence Thomas in a Supreme Court decision. He is also the author of the 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar. His Grand Old Partisan website celebrates more than fifteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Read More......

We always knew what a great mind Jefferson had!

(Hat tip: Deborah Barrett via email) - John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

Be sure to read the last quote from 1802...

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. --Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. --Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. --Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. --Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. --Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. --Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. --Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. --Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. --Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Read More......