Frase pronunciata nell'agosto 1984 durante le prove di una trasmissione radio, pensando che non sarebbe stata registrata
citato in Richard Crockatt, Cinquant'anni di guerra fredda, traduzione di L. Cecchini, Salerno Editrice, 1997, p. 435. ISBN 9788884022134
Ronald Reagan frasi celebri
citato in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
“Ci sono insulti peggiori che essere definito un sognatore.”
dal discorso alla Oxford Union Society del 4 dicembre 1992
Ronald Reagan Frasi e Citazioni
nel 1987, a Berlino, davanti alla porta di Brandeburgo; da Reagan - Tear Down This Wall http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=7OcVEvG4L9Y
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!
Origine: Citato in Ennio Di Nolfo, <nowiki></nowiki>Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Dal 1918 ai giorni nostri<nowiki></nowiki>, Editori Laterza, Roma, 2008, <nowiki>ISBN 978-88-420-8734-2</nowiki>, pag. 1256
Origine: Citato in È emersa una telefonata razzista del 1971 fra Ronald Reagan e Richard Nixon https://www.ilpost.it/flashes/reagan-nixon-telefonata-razzista/, Ilpost.it, 1 agosto 2019
Ronald Reagan: Frasi in inglese
Quoted as an attribution in Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2013), p. 268
Attributed
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), First Inaugural address (1981)
Contesto: Above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors.
“Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”
Remarks at the National Conference of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO (30 March 1981)) (source: http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/33081b.htm)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Remarks at the Annual Salute to Congress Dinner http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/20481b.htm (4 February 1981)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Variante: 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.
Contesto: Thomas Jefferson made a comment about the Presidency and age. He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task. And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
“Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.”
Variante: Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Joke during his 1965 campaign for Governor of California, as quoted by Leo E. Litwak in The New York Times Magazine (14 November 1965), p. 174 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50F13FC3B591B7A93C6A8178AD95F418685F9.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
As quoted in The Reagan Wit (1981) by Bill Adler, p. 30
1960s
“We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone”
Sometimes attributed to Reagan, but the earliest citation attributes the saying to Dr Loretta Scott, 1,600 Quotes & Pieces of Wisdom That Just Might Help You Out When You're Stuck in a Moment https://books.google.com/books?id=quX0r9SkVj8C&pg=PA41&dq=%22we+can%27t+help+everyone%22+%22everyone+can+help+someone%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIk-28w6WkyAIVR5SICh3HOwON#v=onepage&q=%22we%20can't%20help%20everyone%22%20%22everyone%20can%20help%20someone%22&f=false (2003), p. 41
Attributed
“A people free to choose will always choose peace.”
Variante: A people free to choose will always choose peace
Origine: The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom
“Please tell me you're Republicans.”
Speaking to surgeons as he entered the operating room following a 1981 assassination attempt. http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=26804&pageIndex=1 To which Dr. Joseph Giordano replied, "We're all Republicans today." An alternative version has Reagan saying "Please tell me you're Republicans." (30 March 1981)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Variante: I hope you're all Republican.
Origine: Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches