This is related to my post, Tweeting wisdom of the ages, attempting to debunk the notion that something less than 140 characters must be shallow. These are quotations from Ronald Reagan that would fit in tweets:
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Facts are stubborn things.
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Trust, but verify.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.
I should note that one of Reagan’s most memorable statements, paying tribute to the Challenger astronauts, was too long for a tweet: We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.”
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