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19 years and 11 months ago

Substance of Greatness ♠ La Substance de la Grandeur

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To me, the great misery of our time is that there is not enough men and women like him: not an ordinary politician, but a statesman (as defined by J.H. Hallowell), and one of the greatest in history.

I could go over and over on his achievements, as a governor and as a president, at home and abroad, I could go on the forces that were driving him, on his genuine attachment to freedom and small government, but rather than the drivel of a French who remembers that the Soviet tanks never reached the West coast of France thank to this man, I would suggest that you go and read him in his own hand.

Because that's what I'll be doing anyway.

Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness, -- To which I leave him.
Godspeed Mr. President.

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1464 - John

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I put up a portrait of Pres. Reagan in my living room just 3 months ago. The only other non family member there being Sir Winston Churchill. They both shared lifes most heroic work, the freeing of slaves.
  • June 08th 2004
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