Quotes of Ronald Reagan

"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free." - Ronald Reagan
一直记住。一直为之骄傲。一直做好准备。那么我们可能会一直有自由。

"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose." - Ronald Reagan
对于冷战，我的策略是：我们赢，他们输。

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
英文里最恐怖的句子是：我是政府派来的，我到这里来帮助你。

"Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have made a difference in the world. Marines don't have that problem." - Ronald Reagan
有些人一辈子都在思考他们是否改变了世界。真正改变了这个世界的海军陆战队员倒没有这个问题。

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
左翼自由派朋友的问题不是他们太无知，而是他们知道太多，可惜都是错的。

"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan
我一生经历的四场战争里，没有一个是因为美国太强大而爆发的。

"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress." - Ronald Reagan
我经常有这个念头：如果摩西把十诫提交国会审议，它们会变成什么样子？

"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan
纳税人，就是那些为联邦政府服务但是不必参加公民服务考试的人。

"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." - Ronald Reagan
政府就像婴孩：食道的一头胃口很好，另一头却一点责任都不负。

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan
一旦忘记了我们国家之上还有上帝，那么我们国家就会真的往下走。

"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." - Ronald Reagan
政府项目是我们在地球上看到的最不容易死的东西。

"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting." - Ronald Reagan
我对你们每个人的要求是：无论发生什么事，无论什么时间，马上叫醒我，即使我正在参加内阁会议。

"Our coins bear the words 'In God We Trust.' We take the oath of office asking his help in keeping that oath. And we proclaim that we are a Nation under God when we pledge allegiance to the flag. But we can't mention his name in a public school or even sing religious hymns that are non-denominational. Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers but there must be no mention of the Man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas." - Ronald Reagan

硬币上铸着"我们信靠上帝"。我们就职宣誓的时候请求他帮助我们信守誓言。我们对着国旗宣布美国在上帝之下。但是我们不能在公立学校提起上帝，或者唱没有教派色彩的宗教歌曲。在教室里，可以用圣诞树、锡箔装饰和驯鹿来庆祝圣诞节，却绝对不能那个出生 日被纪念的人人们不禁想知道：如果一个学生问为什么这一天叫圣诞节，老师会怎么回答。

"The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next. It was the deep knowledge -- and pray God we have not lost it -- that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.

You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man." - Ronald Reagan, 40th anniversary of the D-Day invasion at Normandy, France

参与诺曼底登陆的士兵有这样的信仰--他们所做的是对的，他们在为人类战斗，公正的上帝会在这个海滩或那个海滩施下怜悯。我们深深的了解--祈求上帝不要让我们忘记这一点--用武力解放其他人和用武力征服其他人有本质的道德上的区别。你们曾经在这里参与解放，而不是征服，因此你们大家没有怀疑战争的目的。你们正确的没有怀疑。

你们都已经知道，有些事情值得为之献身。国家值得献身，民主也值得献身，因为它是人能设计出来的最有尊严的政府形式。（诺曼底登陆40周年纪念日，于法国）

原文：
http://www.baxtercountyrepublicans.com/reagan.html
翻译: JiuYu