Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period [is] contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see… — 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
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
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If you owe the bank $10,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $10,000,000 they have a problem. After all… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant… — 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
We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core… — 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
I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career… — 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 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
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
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words:… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.” — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers. — 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
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
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
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
Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
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