Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) is one of my personal heros. He was an amazing man. He stood fast atop a concrete set of beliefs. He taught us a lot about economics, and he reminded us to live the American dream. Nancy Reagan said, "Ronnie felt this was his greatest accomplishment—finding a safe ending to the cold war. And his other great legacy, he felt, was giving our country back its optimism." Her article in Time magazine is fantastic. http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101040614/rmemories.html

Thank God for Ronald Reagan. He set a course that I pray we will stay. May he rest in peace, but may his vision for out great country endure.

God bless,

Matthew

P.S. Here are a few quintesential Reagan quotes:

**We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefitting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.
September 29, 1981

**There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder.
Address to the University of South Carolina, Columbia, September 20, 1983

**[G]overnment's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business, August 15, 1986

**Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Speech near the Berlin Wall, 1987

**It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag.
RNC Annual Gala, Feb. 3, 1994

**Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere."
FORTUNE, September 15, 1986

**Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

**I hope that when you're my age you'll be able to say, as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.