He belongs to the ages

[RJNorton]

(12-06-2013 07:46 PM)Jim Garrett Wrote:  He need more original speech writers.

And, Jim, sometimes a president's speechwriters don't even get the source right.

President Reagan stood before a nationwide audience at the 1992 Republican National Convention and delivered a speech in which he said:

"I heard those speakers at that other convention saying "we won the Cold War" — and I couldn't help wondering, just who exactly do they mean by "we"? And to top it off, they even tried to portray themselves as sharing the same fundamental values of our party! What they truly don't understand is the principle so eloquently stated by Abraham Lincoln: "You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."

http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/linc...cannot.htm