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“Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people. It is the right to dream—to follow your dream or stick to your conscience, even if you’re the only one in a sea of doubters. Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put on this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“He was mocked by his critics for being an empty suit, yet he was a careful, studious chief executive—a voracious reader and talented writer who often left his speechwriters in awe.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“He also pointed out to Reagan that the United States was engaged in a debate about building a fence between the United States and Mexico, although the analogy didn’t fly with Reagan. He informed Gorbachev that a fence might be necessary because so many people wanted to come into the United States, not because they wanted to leave!”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“is for a member of the Senate or Congress to say, ‘Gee, I can’t accept your appointment this afternoon. I have to play a round of golf at Burning Tree with the President of the United States.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“Truman was surly in his leave-taking, unable to forgive Ike for his campaign critiques and move on. Although Eisenhower was invited to the White House to confer with Truman after the election, the meeting was chilly. Looking ahead to the inauguration, Eisenhower grumbled, “I wonder if I can stand sitting next to him.” By inauguration day, things deteriorated to the degree that Truman even took umbrage at Ike’s choice of a homburg over a”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“political wheels. “I”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“The general doesn’t know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday,” Truman griped, ignoring the fact that he himself had once urged Eisenhower to run for president, before he learned Ike was a Republican. Truman”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“In my opinion, the root of these problems lies right here—in Washington, D.C.,” he said. “Our nation’s capital has become the seat of a ‘buddy’ system that functions for its own benefit—increasingly insensitive to the needs of the American worker who supports it with his taxes.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“a top hat—a deliberate act of rebellion on Ike’s part that shocked the protocol mavens. For their part, the Eisenhowers had refused to enter the White House for a pre-inauguration cup of coffee, choosing instead to wait in the car that would take both the president and president-elect to the ceremony. At least Ike didn’t meet Truman at the Capitol steps, as he’d threatened. But it was a very uncomfortable car ride. “I’m glad I wasn’t in that car,” head White House usher J. B. West said.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“Support for freedom fighters is self-defense.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“Nothing is more common than for a free people, in times of heat and violence, to gratify momentary passions, by letting into the government, principles and precedents which afterwards prove fatal to themselves. Of this kind is the doctrine of disqualification, disfranchisement and banishment by acts of legislature. The dangerous consequences of this power are manifest. If the legislature can disfranchise any number of citizens at pleasure by general descriptions, it may soon confine all the votes to a small number of partisans, and establish an aristocracy or an oligarchy; if it may banish at discretion all those whom particular circumstances render obnoxious, without hearing or trial, no man can be safe, nor know when he may be the innocent victim of a prevailing faction. The name of liberty applied to such a government would be a mockery of common sense.”
― Bret Baier, To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment

“The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot,” Margaret Thatcher declared in 1991.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“The first”
― Bret Baier, To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower

“when he walked outside, they burst into song. He tried to speak, but they kept singing. Puzzled, Reagan asked Wałęsa what they were singing. He replied, “May you live 100 years.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“Life I wonder what it’s all about, and why We suffer so, when little things go wrong? We make our life a struggle, When life should be a song.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“He developed a simple method for handling rage, an “anger drawer” in his desk into which he dropped slips of paper with the names of people he was angry at. Once in the drawer, the grievance was banished from thought.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“was an interesting and authentic personality in a profession dominated by pompous, overly cautious, and often hypocritical men. He was thirsty for engagement, desperate to be in the arena. Until he died at age sixty,”
― Bret Baier, To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower

“Victories against poverty are greatest and peace most secure where people live by laws that ensure free press, free speech, and freedom to worship, vote, and create wealth.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“Compromise remained the word of the day. And what is compromise but agreeing at times to vote against one’s desires in order to reach a higher goal? Those who”
― Bret Baier, To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment

“A secret poll of six hundred Poles taken by Paris Match in 1983 found that they identified Poland’s last hope as being, in order, the pope, the Virgin Mary, and Ronald Reagan.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“The question then as now is whether we can hold true to our common ideals even in the midst of discord.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America

“Harry Truman once said that, ultimately, our security and the world’s hopes for peace and human progress “lie not in measures of defense or in the control of weapons, but in the growth and expansion of freedom and self-government.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“The final vote was 1,187 for Ford and 1,070 for Reagan. Reagan fell short by only 117 delegates.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“It’s time for us all to realize that government is not the answer to our economic problems. Government is the problem.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“Today, nine nations have nuclear programs—the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea. Iran threatens, and it is naïve to think a nuclear Iran is impossible.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“the leaders would meet on the Mediterranean island of Malta in December. Notably,”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“A people free to choose will always choose peace. . . .”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

“Ike was so effective on the stump that Kennedy grew worried. “With every word he utters, I can feel the votes leaving me,” he told his friend Paul “Red” Fay. “It’s like standing on a mound of sand with the tide running out. If the election were held tomorrow, I’d win easily, but six days from now, it’s up for grabs.”
― Bret Baier, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission – The #1 National Bestseller on Principled Leadership and Ike's Warning to America