http://www.poorrichardsprintshop.com:80/reagan_wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Unnamed_Robert_Ashbrook_Dinner_SpeechUnnamed Robert Ashbrook Dinner Speech - Revision history2026-07-12T02:43:38ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.17http://www.poorrichardsprintshop.com:80/reagan_wiki/index.php?title=Unnamed_Robert_Ashbrook_Dinner_Speech&diff=4424&oldid=prevReagan admin at 01:49, 15 February 20262026-02-15T01:49:06Z<p></p>
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</table>Reagan adminhttp://www.poorrichardsprintshop.com:80/reagan_wiki/index.php?title=Unnamed_Robert_Ashbrook_Dinner_Speech&diff=3192&oldid=prevReagan admin at 20:36, 3 May 20222022-05-03T20:36:40Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Rather than try to add to all the things that have been said I will discuss with you tonight some of the things that I know he is concerned with and some of the things that he has dared to stand up and be counted on. A hundred years ago [https://www.nytimes.com/1860/03/24/archives/macaulay-on-democracy-curious-letter-from-lord-macaulay-on-american.html<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|</del>Lord Macaulay of England wrote to an American friend] and said in the fifth century, A.D., ancient Rome, was fearfully plundered by the Vandals and Huns. And then he predicted to the Americans that in the mld-20th century—which is approximately this period we are in—our Republic would be fearfully plundered by the Vandals and Huns but he said, with this difference Rome's barbarians came from without—your barbarians will be engendered by your own democratic institutions. Perhaps what he had in mind was what Prof. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler,_Lord_Woodhouselee<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|</del>Alexander Frazer Tytler] has written, that a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority, he said, always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship. Unfortunately, we can't argue with the professor because when he wrote that we were still colonials of Great Britain and he was explaining what has destroyed the Athenian Republic more than 2,000 years before.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Rather than try to add to all the things that have been said I will discuss with you tonight some of the things that I know he is concerned with and some of the things that he has dared to stand up and be counted on. A hundred years ago [https://www.nytimes.com/1860/03/24/archives/macaulay-on-democracy-curious-letter-from-lord-macaulay-on-american.html Lord Macaulay of England wrote to an American friend] and said in the fifth century, A.D., ancient Rome, was fearfully plundered by the Vandals and Huns. And then he predicted to the Americans that in the mld-20th century—which is approximately this period we are in—our Republic would be fearfully plundered by the Vandals and Huns but he said, with this difference Rome's barbarians came from without—your barbarians will be engendered by your own democratic institutions. Perhaps what he had in mind was what Prof. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler,_Lord_Woodhouselee Alexander Frazer Tytler] has written, that a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority, he said, always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship. Unfortunately, we can't argue with the professor because when he wrote that we were still colonials of Great Britain and he was explaining what has destroyed the Athenian Republic more than 2,000 years before.</div></td></tr>
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Robert Weaver, Federal Housing Administrator, stated publicly that while the Government once gave control and ownership of the land to the private citizen in order to speed Its development, today the goal of the Government is to regain complete control of the use of that land. Lewis Levine, the U.S. Director of Employment, backed by a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">4200 </del>million budget, said the ultimate goal is to make the U.S. Employment Service the manpower agency for the entire Nation; that there will no longer be a need for private employment agencies. And thus we see the Federal Government taking part in determining where an employee will work and whom employers will employ. Every businessman could tell his own story of harassment. The natural gas producers have a beaut. They were handed a questionnaire not too long ago that was 428 pages long. it weighed 10 pounds and each page was 24 inches long and it had room for hundreds of entries. They had to fill it out in quadruplicate. One firm has estimated it will take 17,000 accountant man-hours to complete this questionnaire. The Power Commission says it has to have it to determine whether they are charging the right price for gas. Are we safe in our books and our records? We discovered that for the last 3 years the Postmaster has been turning over private mall letters to the Internal Revenue Service letters addressed to people who are back or delinquent in the payment of their income tax. Planes equipped with surveying Instruments fly over American farms to check on those farms to see If there is a violation of the planting allotment and If any farmer is found guilty of such a thing, he is guilty as charged. He is fined: he has no day in court and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">If </del>he doesn’t pay his fine they can seize and sell at auction his property to enforce the payment.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Paperwork<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. </ins>Government forms forced off on the American businessman cost the American Industry <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">$20 </ins>billion a year. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It </ins>is estimated it takes 35 percent of the small businessman's time Just to fill out Government regulations and questionnaires. And the threat of even more regulation and outright takeover looms even larger. Robert Weaver, Federal Housing Administrator, stated publicly that while the Government once gave control and ownership of the land to the private citizen in order to speed Its development, today the goal of the Government is to regain complete control of the use of that land. Lewis Levine, the U.S. Director of Employment, backed by a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">$200 </ins>million budget, said the ultimate goal is to make the U.S. Employment Service the manpower agency for the entire Nation; that there will no longer be a need for private employment agencies. And thus we see the Federal Government taking part in determining where an employee will work and whom employers will employ. Every businessman could tell his own story of harassment. The natural gas producers have a beaut. They were handed a questionnaire not too long ago that was 428 pages long. it weighed 10 pounds and each page was 24 inches long and it had room for hundreds of entries. They had to fill it out in quadruplicate. One firm has estimated it will take 17,000 accountant man-hours to complete this questionnaire. The Power Commission says it has to have it to determine whether they are charging the right price for gas. Are we safe in our books and our records? We discovered that for the last 3 years the Postmaster has been turning over private mall letters to the Internal Revenue Service letters addressed to people who are back or delinquent in the payment of their income tax. Planes equipped with surveying Instruments fly over American farms to check on those farms to see If there is a violation of the planting allotment and If any farmer is found guilty of such a thing, he is guilty as charged. He is fined: he has no day in court and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">if </ins>he doesn’t pay his fine they can seize and sell at auction his property to enforce the payment.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Reagan adminhttp://www.poorrichardsprintshop.com:80/reagan_wiki/index.php?title=Unnamed_Robert_Ashbrook_Dinner_Speech&diff=3190&oldid=prevReagan admin at 20:30, 3 May 20222022-05-03T20:30:04Z<p></p>
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</table>Reagan adminhttp://www.poorrichardsprintshop.com:80/reagan_wiki/index.php?title=Unnamed_Robert_Ashbrook_Dinner_Speech&diff=3189&oldid=prevReagan admin at 20:21, 3 May 20222022-05-03T20:21:07Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Rather than try to add to all the things that have been said I will discuss with you tonight some of the things that I know he is concerned with and some of the things that he has dared to stand up and be counted on. A hundred years ago [https://www.nytimes.com/1860/03/24/archives/macaulay-on-democracy-curious-letter-from-lord-macaulay-on-american.html|Lord Macaulay of England wrote to an American friend] and said in the fifth century, A.D., ancient Rome, was fearfully plundered by the Vandals and Huns. And then he predicted to the Americans that in the mld-20th century—which is approximately this period we are in—our Republic would be fearfully plundered by the Vandals and Huns but he said, with this difference Rome's barbarians came from without—your barbarians will be engendered by your own democratic institutions. Perhaps what he had in mind was what Prof. Alexander Frazer Tytler has written, that a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority, he said, always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship. Unfortunately, we can't argue with the professor because when he wrote that we were still colonials of Great Britain and he was explaining what has destroyed the Athenian Republic more than 2,000 years before.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Rather than try to add to all the things that have been said I will discuss with you tonight some of the things that I know he is concerned with and some of the things that he has dared to stand up and be counted on. A hundred years ago [https://www.nytimes.com/1860/03/24/archives/macaulay-on-democracy-curious-letter-from-lord-macaulay-on-american.html|Lord Macaulay of England wrote to an American friend] and said in the fifth century, A.D., ancient Rome, was fearfully plundered by the Vandals and Huns. And then he predicted to the Americans that in the mld-20th century—which is approximately this period we are in—our Republic would be fearfully plundered by the Vandals and Huns but he said, with this difference Rome's barbarians came from without—your barbarians will be engendered by your own democratic institutions. Perhaps what he had in mind was what Prof. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler,_Lord_Woodhouselee|</ins>Alexander Frazer Tytler<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">] </ins>has written, that a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority, he said, always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship. Unfortunately, we can't argue with the professor because when he wrote that we were still colonials of Great Britain and he was explaining what has destroyed the Athenian Republic more than 2,000 years before.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Reagan adminhttp://www.poorrichardsprintshop.com:80/reagan_wiki/index.php?title=Unnamed_Robert_Ashbrook_Dinner_Speech&diff=3187&oldid=prevReagan admin at 20:10, 3 May 20222022-05-03T20:10:58Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mr. Henderson, Congressman Ashbrook, ladles and gentlemen, you filled my heart to overflowing with that kind of a welcome. I don’t deserve the nice things that were said about me but I don't mind confessing that I enjoy hearing them. There are some things, you know, when you are being introduced that get you a little uncomfortable. I’m always concerned, for example, lest they start going Into the motion pictures that I’ve been in. Now I don't mean that I’m ashamed of all of them but anyone who’s been around [[Hollywood]] for any length of time has made some movies that the studio didn't want them good. it wanted them Thursday. And I’ve had my share like everyone else. Of course in the old days we could always count on the passing years taking those pictures out of your memory. Now we just stay up late enough at night in front of the TV set and they all come back to haunt us. Sometimes it's like looking at a son you never knew you had. I've got a friend in the business who stays up late to look at his old movies Just to watch his hairline recede. You know now this world of politics is a very wonderful thing. My friend <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[</del>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Murphy<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|</del>George Murphy<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</del>] tells some tales of his campaigning. Murphy says that he finished a speech one night and a sweet elderly little lady came up to him and she said, "Oh, I remember you when you were George Murphy." And then she said. “I think your speech was simply superfluous.” Murphy tried to stop her; he smiled Just as sweetly and said "Thank you, ma'am. I'm thinking of having it published posthumously." She topped him—she smiled right back and said, "I can hardly wait." But it is a wonderful world.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mr. Henderson, Congressman Ashbrook, ladles and gentlemen, you filled my heart to overflowing with that kind of a welcome. I don’t deserve the nice things that were said about me but I don't mind confessing that I enjoy hearing them. There are some things, you know, when you are being introduced that get you a little uncomfortable. I’m always concerned, for example, lest they start going Into the motion pictures that I’ve been in. Now I don't mean that I’m ashamed of all of them but anyone who’s been around [[Hollywood]] for any length of time has made some movies that the studio didn't want them good. it wanted them Thursday. And I’ve had my share like everyone else. Of course in the old days we could always count on the passing years taking those pictures out of your memory. Now we just stay up late enough at night in front of the TV set and they all come back to haunt us. Sometimes it's like looking at a son you never knew you had. I've got a friend in the business who stays up late to look at his old movies Just to watch his hairline recede. You know now this world of politics is a very wonderful thing. My friend [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Murphy George Murphy] tells some tales of his campaigning. Murphy says that he finished a speech one night and a sweet elderly little lady came up to him and she said, "Oh, I remember you when you were George Murphy." And then she said. “I think your speech was simply superfluous.” Murphy tried to stop her; he smiled Just as sweetly and said "Thank you, ma'am. I'm thinking of having it published posthumously." She topped him—she smiled right back and said, "I can hardly wait." But it is a wonderful world.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Reagan adminhttp://www.poorrichardsprintshop.com:80/reagan_wiki/index.php?title=Unnamed_Robert_Ashbrook_Dinner_Speech&diff=407&oldid=prevReagan admin at 21:00, 24 February 20222022-02-24T21:00:14Z<p></p>
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