Perhaps the best American President in the U.S. History and a great communicator of the 20th century. Today, he would have turns 100. He died in June 05, 2004 after a long affliction with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Below is Reagan’s Farewell Address to the Nation in 1989:
(Turn on CC for captioning for the deaf).
Transcript of his speech can be read here.
This is, in my opinion, the best part of his speech and it fundamentally holds true for today’s and tomorrow’s conservatives about the American People and politics in America:
Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: “We the People.” “We the People” tell the government what to do; it doesn’t tell us. “We the People” are the driver; the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which “We the People” tell the government what it is allowed to do. “We the People” are free. This belief has been the underlying basis for everything I’ve tried to do these past eight years.
