We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Economics, Economy
As government expands, liberty contracts
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: One liners, Government
In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Crises, Government
We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Welfare
We’ve been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Government
The taxpayer: Someone who works for the government but doesn’t have to take a civil service examination.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Taxes
Status quo, you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in’.
—Ronald Reagan
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Information
The best minds are not in the government. If any were, business would hire them away.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Government, Mind, Business
Government is the people’s business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.
—Ronald Reagan
True, lasting peace cannot be secured through
the strength of arms alone. Among free peoples,
the open exchange of ideas ultimately is our greatest security.
—Ronald Reagan
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last—but eat you he will.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Inaction
You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jelly beans.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Character
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Love
If you’ve seen one redwood, you’ve seen them all.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Experience
We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping 107 We spent $146 billion. With that money, we bought a 2-million-dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Aid, Assistance, Help
It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home for Christmas.
—Ronald Reagan
A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must be undaunted when the going gets tough.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Determination, Perseverance, Endurance
Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Welfare
I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
—Ronald Reagan
We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: World
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
Topics: Government
Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.
—Ronald Reagan
What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Poverty, The Poor
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Enemy
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: World
I’m not smart enough to lie.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Lies
We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Freedom
A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Government
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Weapon
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