Millions of individuals making their own decisions
in the marketplace will always allocate resources
better than any centralized government planning process.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Government, Self-Knowledge
Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we’re in.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Change
Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Government
The taxpayer—that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Taxes, Taxation
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Government
Poverty is a career for lot’s of well paid people.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Poverty
Someplace along the line the audience discovered you. In my case it was playing the Gipper.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Acting, Actors
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Authority, Management
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Responsibility, Babies, Appetite, Government
The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It’s been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.
—Ronald Reagan
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
—Ronald Reagan
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing is worth dying for, when did this begin..? …Should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots of Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard ’round the world?
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Revolution
Every new day begins with possibilities. It’s up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Action
Government is the people’s business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.
—Ronald Reagan
I think the best possible social program is a job.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: One liners, Welfare, Government
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Sleep
Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.
—Ronald Reagan
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Politicians, Politics
Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Politics
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
Honey, I forgot to duck.
—Ronald Reagan
The 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 Reagan
Topics: Economics, Economy, Government
Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is I’ve never felt better in my life.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Cancer
Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let’s not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
—Ronald Reagan
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Economy, Economics
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
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose—somehow we win out.
—Ronald Reagan
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, Help, Assistance
The best minds are not in the government. If any were, business would hire them away.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Mind, Government, Business
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