You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Those who advocate more and more government regulation have been experimenting for 40 years, trying to create an economic system in which… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our system freed the individual genius of man. Released him to fly as high & as far as his own talent &… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it's like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The people's instincts are still right. You see them come to the rescue of someone-a child who falls down a well-hundreds of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom... — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America - our country is in… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
On Father's Day, we pay tribute to all in our society who have taken on the responsibilitie s and joys of fatherhood. Whether our… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
