{"id":128,"date":"2008-05-18T14:08:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T18:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/?p=128"},"modified":"2008-05-18T14:08:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T18:08:59","slug":"quotes-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/archives\/128","title":{"rendered":"Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some great Ronald Reagan Quotes I ran across recently.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most terrifying words in the English language are: I&#8217;m from the government and I&#8217;m here to help.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they&#8217;re ignorant; it&#8217;s just that they know so much that isn&#8217;t so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The taxpayer: That&#8217;s someone who works for the federal government but doesn&#8217;t have to take the civil service examination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned&nbsp; that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government&#8217;s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>&#8220;If we ever forget that we&#8217;re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some great Ronald Reagan Quotes I ran across recently. &nbsp; &#8220;Here&#8217;s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.&#8221; &#8220;The most terrifying words in the English language are: I&#8217;m from the government and I&#8217;m here to help.&#8221; &#8220;The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they&#8217;re ignorant; it&#8217;s just that they know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tyCm-24","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}