Reagan, In His Own Hand Quotes

“A little less detente with the Politbureau and more encouragement to the dissenters might be worth a lot of armored divisions.”
― Ronald Reagan, Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America

“When men fail to drive toward a goal or purpose but only drift the drift is always toward barbarism.”
― Ronald Reagan, Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America

“Professors should teach you how to think not necessarily what to think. If a Professor for some reason does impose his personal bias on his students then he should at the same time urge them to find someone of a contrary opinion, hear his reasoning and having heard both sides form his own opinion.”
― Ronald Reagan, Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America

“I wonder what it's all about, and why
We suffer so, when little things go wrong?
We make our life a struggle,
When life should be a song.

Our troubles break and drench us,
Like spray on the cleaving prow
Of some trim Gloucester schooner.
As it drips in a graceful bow.

Our troubles break and drench us
But like that cleaving prow,
The wind will fan and dry us.
And we'll watch some other bow.

But why does sorrow drench us
When our fellow passes on?
He's just exchanged life's dreary dirge
For an eternal life of song.

What is the inborn human trait
That frowns on a life of song?
That makes us weep at the journey's end,
When the journey was oft-times wrong?

Weep when we reach the door
That opens to let us in,
And brings to us eternal peace
As it closes again on sin.

Millions have gone before us,
And millions will come behind.
So why do we curse and fight
At a fate both wise and kind.

We hang onto a jaded life
A life full of sorrow and pain.
A life that warps and breaks us,
And we try to run through it again.”
― Ronald Reagan, Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America

“Not all memories are pleasant but we shouldn't put the unpleasant ones out of our mind. At least not all of them.”
― Ronald Reagan, Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America

“Someone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost the government will fall. In a monarchy it is affection and respect for the royal family. If that is lost the monarch is lost. In a dictatorship it is fear. If the people stop fearing the dictator he'll lose power. In a representative government such as ours it is virtue. If virtue goes the government falls.
Are we choosing paths that are politically expedient and morally questionable? Are we in truth losing our virtue?”
― Ronald Reagan, Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America