Ronald Reagan Quotes
There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.
Hannaford, Peter. The Quotable Ronald Reagan. Regnery Publishing, 1998.
John Nance Garner was a U. S. Congressman from Texas who never made speeches or campaigned in his district, rarely spoke in the House, and would not permit his remarks to be printed in the Congressional Record. Speaker Cannon once said to him:. John Nance Garner was later Vice President of the United States during Franklin Roosevelt's first two terms.
A slight variant of this quotation appears in the base of the Statue of Liberty.
He and saome others were concerned that if most American citizens knew most of the details about terrorists and U. S. potential vulnerability to terrorism, many would be totally inhibited and American Society would become very insular and restrictive to the detriment of the nation and the economy. Critics argue that American's imagination stimulated by entertainment, journalism and literature was extreely robust and Americans nnetheless could handle the risks. And the secrecy even exacerbates the problem becasue there was no way to refute or curtain those who exaggerated the problem and the risks.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and became a highly influential voice of modern conservatism. Prior to his presidency, he was a Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975.
