Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan is known by many as the face of a conservative. Ronald Reagan during his presidency. I believe that Ronald Reagan showed many of the qualities that a strong leader should show such as deep faith, willing to admit failure, and a love of freedom Ronald Reagan once said, “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under”. This quote shows how deeply rooted Reagan was in his Christian faith. His belief in the one true God led him to reject communism and to appeal for better programs to help the poor. He rejected communism because communism by definition is atheistic because it seeks to replace an all-knowing god with an all knowing government and urges the people to depend on the government for their bread instead of relying on God for their daily bread. . In addition, Reagan opposed the welfare system because the majority of the money being spent on it was not going directly to the poor or needy but was sustaining the bureaucracy.. He went so far as to say during his famous A Time for Choosing speech: Welfare spending [is] 10 times greater than in the dark depths of the Depression. We're spending 45 billion dollars on welfare. Now do a little arithmetic, and …show more content…
This policy only made Hitler hungry for more land. After giving Austria and Czechlovakia, Hitler then demanded Poland in response. Britain and France declared war on a now fully prepared Germany. Many believe that WWII could have been largely avoided if the League of Nations had put their foot down in the first place instead of trying to appease Hitler. This appeasement Reagan because he believed that appeasement would lead to a loss of freedom. He believed that freedom was more valuable even than the loss of his life because to quote Hamid Karzai,”a life without liberty is far worse than