I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation. Ronald Reagan More Quotes by Ronald Reagan More Quotes From Ronald Reagan Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible. Ronald Reagan religious god bible If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer. Ronald Reagan agency education children The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. Ronald Reagan business success inspirational No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. Ronald Reagan taxes income burden California produces 40% of America's fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts - the kind you eat. We have had a bumper crop of the other variety, too. Ronald Reagan california vegetables nuts If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it. Ronald Reagan taxes ifs want We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate. Ronald Reagan pluralism-is presidential country The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks. Ronald Reagan differences political government When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much. Ronald Reagan liberty government littles There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them. Ronald Reagan giving-up men hands I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land...Any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here. Ronald Reagan land roots america History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness. Ronald Reagan government funny people Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem. Ronald Reagan freedom government problem The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems, that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities. My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view. Ronald Reagan sacrifice opportunity children f you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals - if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is. Ronald Reagan heart believe thinking Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man. Ronald Reagan giving-up fighting men As government expands, liberty contracts. Ronald Reagan liberty political government Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose. Ronald Reagan military winning war Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. Ronald Reagan politics government business We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent. Ronald Reagan politics play world
