Ronald Reagan citáty

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Prisudzované výroky

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
Prejav pred Brandeburgskou bránou. (1987)
Potvrdené výroky, Druhé prezidentské obdobie (1985 – 1989)

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster. So, when we neglected our defenses, the risks of serious confrontation grew.
Prejav k národu a ostatným krajinám o americko-sovietskych vzťahoch (z Bieleho domu, 16. január 1984)
Potvrdené výroky, Prvé prezidentské obdobie (1981 – 1985)
Zdroj: Address to the Nation and Other Countries on United States-Soviet Relations, January 16, 1984 [online]. Simi Valley, CA : Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum, 2009-10-06 [cit. 2014-12-10]. Dostupné online http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/11684a.htm. ( video (YouTube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_yUID5uO4E)

Thomas Jefferson once said, "We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that I stopped worrying.
Prisudzované výroky

Well I hope you're all Republicans!
Adresované chirurgom po prevoze do operačnej sály po pokuse o atentát z 30. marca 1981. Doktor Joseph Giordano odpovedal: "Dnes sme všetci republikánmi." Alternatívne verzia hovorí, že Reagan povedal: "Please tell me you're Republicans."
Prisudzované výroky
Zdroj: CNN.com http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/05/reagan.obit/

Prisudzované výroky

Too much SALT is bad for your health.
Poznámka vyslovená pri opúštaní tretieho kola rozhovorov o obmedzení strategických zbraní (SALT) v roku 1986.
Potvrdené výroky, Druhé prezidentské obdobie (1985 – 1989)

My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
Počas skúšky mikrofónu pred začiatkom relácie Weekly Radio Address of the President of the United States v National Public Radio, keď si neuvedomil, že je záznam prenášaný (11. august 1984)
Potvrdené výroky, Prvé prezidentské obdobie (1981 – 1985)
Zdroj: Weekly Radio Address of the President of the United States [epizóda rozhlasovej relácie]. Spojené štáty, 1984. National Public Radio, 1984-08-11. Dostupné online http://www.npr.org/news/specials/obits/reagan/audio_archive.html. Zvukový súbor uvedený textom: „Hear Reagan joking into a microphone on Aug. 11, 1984, that the United States would "begin bombing (Russia) in five minutes." “.

Honey, I forgot to duck.
Vyslovené krátko po pokuse o atentát svojej manželke Nancy. Predpokladá sa, že Reagan citoval slová boxera Jacka Dempseyho po tom, ako prehral s Gene Tunneym v roku 1926.
Potvrdené výroky, Prvé prezidentské obdobie (1981 – 1985)
Zdroj: CNN.com http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/05/reagan.obit/

Christmas means so much because of one special child. But Christmas also reminds us that all children are special, that they are gifts from God, gifts beyond price that mean more than any presents money can buy. In their love and laughter, in our hopes for their future lies the true meaning of Christmas.
Prejav k verejnosti k Vianociam a situácii v Poľsku (z Oválnej pracovne, 23. december 1981, 21:00 EST, 24. december, 03:00 SEČ)
Potvrdené výroky, Prvé prezidentské obdobie (1981 – 1985)
Zdroj: Address to the Nation About Christmas and the Situation in Poland, December 23, 1981 [online]. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum, 2009-10-06 [cit. 2014-12-23]. Dostupné online http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/122381e.htm. ( video (YouTube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEctiw5qqmA)

Remarks Announcing America's Economic Bill of Rights http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1987/070387a.htm (3 July 1987)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)
Kontext: It's reported that John Adams' last words were, "Thomas Jefferson survives." History tells us, however, that Jefferson had died shortly before John Adams passed away. But Adams was right. All of us stand in tribute to the truth of those words. We proclaim it again and again with our dedication to keeping this a land of liberty and justice for all, and through our deeds and actions, to ensure that this country remains a bastion of freedom, the last best hope for mankind. As long as a love of liberty is emblazoned on our hearts, Jefferson lives.

Address to the Nation (27 July 1981) http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/72781d.htm
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Kontext: This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you now to put aside any feelings of frustration or helplessness about our political institutions and join me in this dramatic but responsible plan to reduce the enormous burden of Federal taxation on you and your family.

1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), First Inaugural address (1981)
Kontext: Directly in front of me, the monument to a monumental man, George Washington, father of our country. A man of humility who came to greatness reluctantly. He led Americans out of revolutionary victory into infant nationhood. Off to one side, the stately memorial to Thomas Jefferson. The Declaration of Independence flames with his eloquence. And then, beyond the Reflecting Pool, the dignified columns of the Lincoln Memorial. Whoever would understand in his heart the meaning of America will find it in the life of Abraham Lincoln.
Beyond those monuments to heroism is the Potomac River, and on the far shore the sloping hills of Arlington National Cemetery, with its row upon row of simple white markers bearing crosses or Stars of David. They add up to only a tiny fraction of the price that has been paid for our freedom. Each one of those markers is a monument to the kind of hero I spoke of earlier. Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, the Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno, and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam.
Under one such marker lies a young man, Martin Treptow, who left his job in a small town barber shop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division. There, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire.
We are told that on his body was found a diary. On the flyleaf under the heading, "My Pledge," he had written these words: "America must win this war. Therefore, I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone."
The crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that Martin Treptow and so many thousands of others were called upon to make. It does require, however, our best effort and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds, to believe that together with God's help we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us. And after all, why shouldn't we believe that? We are Americans.

Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine (1961 LP)
1960s
Kontext: But at the moment I'd like to talk about another way because this threat is with us and at the moment is more imminent. 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.... Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it. We have an example of this. Under the Truman administration it was proposed that we have a compulsory health insurance program for all people in the United States, and, of course, the American people unhesitatingly rejected this.

Signing statement on the ratification of the United Nations Convention on Torture http://deadconfederates.com/2014/12/10/prosecute-them/ (1984)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Kontext: The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation of Convention. It marks a significant step in the development during this century of international measures against torture and other inhuman treatment or punishment. Ratification of the Convention by the United States will clearly express United States opposition to torture, an abhorrent practice unfortunately still prevalent in the world today. The core provisions of the Convention establish a regime for international cooperation in the criminal prosecution of torturers relying on so-called "universal jurisdiction." Each State Party is required either to prosecute torturers who are found in its territory or to extradite them to other countries for prosecution.

While signing the Bill Providing Restitution for the Wartime Internment of Japanese-American Civilians, quoting himself at the funeral of Kazuo Masuda in December 1945 (10 August 1988) http://history.wisc.edu/archdeacon/404tja/redress.html
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)
Kontext: Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.

Radio commentary (August 1975)
1970s
Kontext: Right now our main effort is directed toward oxides of nitrogen which comes out of automobile tail pipe and cause the photochemical reactions which color the air a muddy brown. There is no question they are a problem in areas like L. A. where we have a more or less constant temperature inversion trapping the air. But Dr. [John] McKetta lists the findings in his field as his no. 3 shock & surprise. Nature it seems also produces oxides of nitrogen. As a matter of fact nature produces 97% of them.

A speech to the American Bar Association after the TWA Flight 847 hijacking. James Bovard, Terrorism and Tyranny, p. 23 http://books.google.de/books?id=VQoH4fy4m88C&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=We+are+especially+not+going+to+tolerate+these+attacks+from+outlaw+states+run+by+the+strangest+collection+of+misfits,+Looney+Tunes+and+squalid+criminals+since+the+advent+of+the+Third+Reich&source=bl&ots=tv3daFha5S&sig=M4GXSs9s1uDXNnykGGcr14jaE6g&hl=de&ei=pbe-TMf6OoTLswb18M3FDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=We%20are%20especially%20not%20going%20to%20tolerate%20these%20attacks%20from%20outlaw%20states%20run%20by%20the%20strangest%20collection%20of%20misfits%2C%20Looney%20Tunes%20and%20squalid%20criminals%20since%20the%20advent%20of%20the%20Third%20Reich&f=false
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)
Kontext: Americans … are not going to tolerate intimidation, terror and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. And we are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich … There can be no place on earth where it is safe for these monsters to rest, or train or practice their cruel and deadly. We must act together – or unilateraly, if necessary – to ensue that these terrorists have no sanctuary, anywhere.

up to a man's age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
1960s, A Time for Choosing (1964)

Said often during his presidency (1981–1989)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)

Remarks to Future Farmers of America http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/072888c.htm (28 July 1988)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1982
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)

At the dedication of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California http://www.planbproductions.com/postnobills/reagan1.html (4 November 1991), the inscription on Reagan's tomb
Post-presidency (1989–2004)

Varianta: Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/081586e.htm (15 August 1986)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)

Letter to Lance Cpl. Joe Hickey http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,88163,00.html (23 September 1983), R.W. "Dick" Gaines http://www.angelfire.com/ca/dickg/marinesquote.html refers in detail
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)

1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989), Farewell Address (1989)
Kontext: I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

Remarks at a business conference in Los Angeles (2 March 1977)
1970s

Some sources indicate the phrase 'government is the problem' was not part of the speech. (E.g. yale.edu http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/reagan1.asp). Live recordings of the address demonstrate that Reagan did indeed use the phrase in question. See Ronald Reagan: First Inaugural Address http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IleiqUDYpFQ; start at 6:08
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), First Inaugural address (1981)
Varianta: In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem
Kontext: In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.

1960s, A Time for Choosing (1964)
Varianta: The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so.