The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the …

The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain communism, it will transcend communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we’ll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written. Ronald Reagan
1981

Trade works insidiously: Industrial capitalism requires mass markets. Mass markets require consumer …

Trade works insidiously: Industrial capitalism requires mass markets. Mass markets require consumer sovereignty. A consumer allowed to choose among six brands of toothpaste eventually finds freedom of choice natural, and then it becomes natural to spit out tyrants in a new revolution, perhaps even to ignore them on such a grand scale that another revolution becomes unnecessary. Thomas G. Donlan
Barron’s, June 2, 1997

He [Dave Brown, shuttle Columbia Astronaut

He [Dave Brown, shuttle Columbia Astronaut] wanted me to make sure that I could find the people or person that may have been the cause of the accident. I want you to go up there and tell them that I hold no animosity for what happened. I died doing what I loved and have no regrests. Ann Micklos
what Dave Brown told former NASA girlfriend Ann Micklos if he didn’t come back from a mission, like Columbia. (Comm Check…, Michael Cabbage & William Harwood, 2004)

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