representation, proportional, 184–85
representative government, 15
republicanism, 57
Republicans, 184
responsibility, 164
retaliation, 130, 180
revolution, 47, 92
Revolutionary War, 65
Rockefeller, John D., 94
Rogers, Will, 26, 107–8
Rome, ancient, 11–12, 110
Romulo, Phil, 59
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 16–17, 19, 89
Russia, 136, 137
Russian joke, 234
Russian roulette, 217
Ruth, Babe, 145
sacrifice, 8, 151
Saint Peter, 235
Santa Claus, 255
savings/savers, 23–24
schools, private, 94
Schreiner (poet), 160
Scottish ballad, 158
SDS, 57
security, of individuals, 5
sedition, 85
self-control, 157
self-preservation, 74, 81
self-reliance, 105–6, 151, 156
Seneca, Lucius, 155, 172
Shaw, George Bernard, 43
sins, 214
slavery, 36, 58, 67, 69
Slichter, Sumner, 25
Smith, Adam, 149
Smith, Al, 145–46
Social Security, 243
socialism, 38, 39–40, 43, 45, 49, 51, 56, 77, 94, 97, 108, 133, 136, 177–78, 185
socialized medicine, 98
Socrates, 91
soldiers, 66–67, 71
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 137
Sophocles, 119
Sorensen, Theodore, 29
sovereignty, 9
Soviet Union, 49, 132, 134, 137, 199, 234–35
Sparta, 91
Spencer, Herbert, 105–6
Stalin, Joseph, 48–49
State, 20–21
States’ rights, 5, 9, 11
statistics, 189
Statue of Liberty, 46
Sternlieb, George, 103–4
strikes, by public employees, 89
students, 211
success, 216, 217, 218, 224
Sun-Tzu, 69
Supreme Court, U.S., 125
power of, 3
Talmud, 157
taxes, taxation, 6, 24–25, 81, 90, 102, 107, 109, 111, 183, 192, 219, 232, 233, 245, 251, 252, 256
equality of, 20, 104
and foreign aid, 131–32
reduction of, 17, 59, 184
and spending, 59
taxpayer, 233
Taylor, Elizabeth, 190
“Teacher” (Mollenhoff), 99
technology, 201, 252
teenagers, 262
television, 211, 212, 236
Texas, 248
theatre, 166–70
Thessalonians, Second Epistle to, 100
Thomas, Norman, 108, 184
thought, power of, 162
time, wasting of, 214
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 6, 36–37
Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 92
trains, 221
treason, 85, 90
truth, 8, 79, 145, 150
tyranny, 44
Tytler, Alexander Fraser, 97
underdeveloped nation, 241
unions, 45–46
United Nations, 254
United States, as protector of small nations, 8
USSR, 137
utopia, 184
values, 86
verbosity, 153, 262
victory, 71
Vietnam War, 180–82
violence:
and government, 92
necessity of, 72
urban, 85
virtue, 15
virtues, 163, 167
Voltaire, 197
votes, 216
“Wanted” (Holland), 163–64
war, 65–74, 84, 91
Warren, Earl, 184–85
Washington, George, 68, 84–85, 116, 172, 218, 248, 250
wealth, redistribution of, 24–25, 197, 219, 256
Weber, Louise E., 47
Webster, Daniel, 3–6, 35–36, 42, 78–79
welfare system, welfare state, 16, 18, 22, 50, 62, 95, 96, 103–4, 105–6, 223, 228, 256
Williams, Jack, 163
Willkie, Wendell, 172
Wilson, Woodrow, 18, 41
Winthrop, John, 7
wisdom, 146, 157, 160
Wolfe, Thomas, 33, 61
women, 196, 199, 207, 213, 232, 234, 236, 237, 238, 240, 244, 263
work, 100, 203, 205, 212, 214, 220, 224, 230–31, 252
World War II, 74
Wormser, Rene A., 177–78
youth, 91, 210, 211, 217, 223, 226, 239, 248, 262
zealots, 148
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Reagan, Ronald.
The notes : Ronald Reagan’s private collection of stories and wisdom / by Ronald Reagan.
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1. Reagan, Ronald—Quotations. 2. Reagan, Ronald—Humor. 3. American wit and humor. I. Title.
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