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, subsidize it.
RONALD REAGANPeace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
More Ronald Reagan Quotes
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I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?
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We must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
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You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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It is time to realize we are too great a nation for small dreams. We’re not – as some would have us believe – doomed to an inevitable fate.
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They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.
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We think there is a parallel between the Federal involvement in education and the decline in quality over recent years.
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Government is the people’s business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.
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Sometimes 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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A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
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Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
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The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.
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You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.
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Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.
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The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
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No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
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