If you haven’t read it yet, you’d really enjoy “Reagan In His Own Hand.”

Dov Gordon

Honored to have an expert on the subject stop by…Please leave an additional comment with a link or any other information you wish to share on the book. Thanks James.

I agree with all your sentiments as expressed. Thanks for providing such great historical context. Your insights are always greatly appreciated.

I always enjoy reading your posts and concur heartily with most of Mr. Reagan’s quotes, believing they apply to both business and all of life.

I can only wish he might have pointed out that our country was chartered not as a democracy, but rather a constitutional republic.

The unaccountable, leviathan central government has become, as Bastiat said, “the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”

It makes the words of Ben Franklin all the more poignant. On exiting the constitutional convention he was asked what kind of government we’d been given. He replied: “A republic … if you can keep it.”

Ron

Thank you for a great post. The quotes from Reagan reminded me of something that John Adams wrote in a letter to Abigail… “But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever”.

The challege we face every day is maintaining the delicate balance between more ‘Freedom’ and less ‘Security’. Freedom is the objective. It is what we fought for. However, when people are willing to sacrifice that in favor of security, Freedom fails. One Reagan mantra was that government’s job was to protect our freedom, not to become bloated in response to a cry for “The government’s job is to take care of me”.

Thomas Paine summed up this dichotomy well when he said “Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing”

M