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
Honey, I forgot to duck.
—Ronald Reagan
I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.
—Ronald Reagan
It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Deception, Work
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Unemployment, Work
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.
—Ronald Reagan
We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Defense, Security
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
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
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Bureaucracy, One liners, Government
Let us ask ourselves; “What kind of people do we think we are?”
—Ronald Reagan
I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
—Ronald Reagan
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Freedom
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
—Ronald Reagan
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.
—Ronald Reagan
I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964
—Ronald Reagan
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
I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.
—Ronald Reagan
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride—the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: War
To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership—not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Vision, Success, Leadership
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
Above all, 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. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Weapon, Will, Will Power, Willpower
A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Government
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: The Past, Past, Americans, Inspiration
Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Welfare
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Worry
Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Welfare
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Love
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Government
Millions of individuals making their own decisions
in the marketplace will always allocate resources
better than any centralized government planning process.
—Ronald Reagan
Topics: Self-Knowledge, Government
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