As government expands, liberty contracts.
RONALD REAGANAs government expands, liberty contracts.
RONALD REAGANGovernment is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
RONALD REAGANThe trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
RONALD REAGANGovernments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
RONALD REAGANThere is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.
RONALD REAGANFreedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.
RONALD REAGANWe think there is a parallel between the Federal involvement in education and the decline in quality over recent years.
RONALD REAGANUnemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
RONALD REAGANRecession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
RONALD REAGANBefore I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
RONALD REAGANStatus quo, you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in.
RONALD REAGANNothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.
RONALD REAGANNo mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
RONALD REAGANWe don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
RONALD REAGANIf we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
RONALD REAGANSometimes when I’m faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there’s a cook.
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