Ronald Reagan
sitemanagerGovernment is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
It is the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism- Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and…
Ronald Reagan
There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan
A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.
Ronald Reagan
Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
Ronald Reagan
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.
Ronald Reagan
I think the best possible social program is a job.
Ronald Reagan
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan
There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace.
Ronald Reagan
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to…
Ronald Reagan
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.
Ronald Reagan
The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job.
Ronald Reagan
The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last…
Ronald Reagan
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Ronald Reagan
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
Ronald Reagan
The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.
Ronald Reagan
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were…
Ronald Reagan
Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.
Ronald Reagan
Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Ronald Reagan
Life is just one grand sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald Reagan
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…
Ronald Reagan
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.
Ronald Reagan
Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets.
Ronald Reagan
I had a dream the other night. I dreamed that Jimmy Carter came to me and asked why I wanted his job. I told him I didn't want his job.…
Ronald Reagan
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
Ronald Reagan
I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.
Ronald Reagan
The greatness of our country has been based on our thinking that everyone has a right even to be wrong.
Ronald Reagan
We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual…
Ronald Reagan
Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem.
Ronald Reagan
One definition of an economist is somebody who sees something happen in practice and wonders if it will work in theory.
Ronald Reagan
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.
Ronald Reagan
In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.
Ronald Reagan
Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is…
Ronald Reagan
Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation?
Ronald Reagan
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving,…
Ronald Reagan
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Ronald Reagan
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.