Writing in the Author’s Note in REAGAN COUNTRY, Ray Keating declared, “This novel is not about Ronald Reagan per se. Rather, it’s a Pastor Stephen Grant thriller about both longtime and new characters in a hopefully exciting and interesting story. Amidst the action, faith, fun and thrills in the following pages, though, this work of fiction notes and uses Reagan’s influence – speculating on it reaching even into Russia.”
Also in the pages of REAGAN COUNTRY, Keating quotes from actual speeches by President Reagan, noting how the words of Reagan affected the characters in the book. Here are four key quotes from Reagan that were included in REAGAN COUNTRY:
1) “We’ve made much progress already. So, let us go forth with good cheer and stout hearts – happy warriors out to seize back a country and a world to freedom.”
2) “Any system that penalizes success and accomplishment is wrong. Any system that discourages work, discourages productivity, discourages economic progress, is wrong.
“If, on the other hand, you reduce tax rates and allow people to spend or save more of what they earn, they'll be more industrious; they'll have more incentive to work hard, and money they earn will add fuel to the great economic machine that energizes our national progress. The result: more prosperity for all – and more revenue for government.
“A few economists call this principle supply- side economics. I just call it common sense.”
3) “Like a chrysalis, we're emerging from the economy of the Industrial Revolution – an economy confined to and limited by the Earth's physical resources – into, as one economist titled his book, The Economy in Mind, in which there are no bounds on human imagination and the freedom to create is the most precious natural resource.”
4) “Freedom, it has been said, makes people selfish and materialistic, but Americans are one of the most religious peoples on Earth. Because they know that liberty, just as life itself, is not earned but a gift from God, they seek to share that gift with the world. ‘Reason and experience,’ said George Washington in his Farewell Address, ‘both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. And it is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.’ Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in family and faith.”
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