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Conservative Quotes by Ronald Reagan
- Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.
- You are worried about what man has done and is doing to this magical planet that God gave us. And I share your concern. What…
- When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
- Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
- We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
- Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
- Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
- 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.…
- Man is not free unless government is limited.
- The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
- The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
- Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
- The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
- Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
- I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
- Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
- Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
- Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
- Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
- Facts are stupid things.
- If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism…
- We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
- Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.
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- The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. — Arthur Balfour
- Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. — Edward Abbey
- I actually get more conservative when I'm in Vegas. — Roseanne Barr
- A government of laws, and not of men. — John Adams
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- I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie. — Glenn Beck
- No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road… — Glenn Beck
- When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. — Ambrose Bierce