Ronald Reagan Quotes
Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.
We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.
Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems
Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front. And we thank God for them.
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.
Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.
In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.
Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.
We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual.
With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.
The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.
The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God
What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.
In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.
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.