Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for. Ronald Reagan More Quotes by Ronald Reagan More Quotes From Ronald Reagan 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 agencyeducationchildren The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. Ronald Reagan businesssuccessinspirational No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. Ronald Reagan taxesincomeburden 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 californiavegetablesnuts If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it. Ronald Reagan taxesifswant 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-ispresidentialcountry The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks. Ronald Reagan differencespoliticalgovernment When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much. Ronald Reagan libertygovernmentlittles 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-upmenhands 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 landrootsamerica 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 governmentfunnypeople Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem. Ronald Reagan freedomgovernmentproblem 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 sacrificeopportunitychildren 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 heartbelievethinking 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-upfightingmen As government expands, liberty contracts. Ronald Reagan libertypoliticalgovernment Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose. Ronald Reagan militarywinningwar Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. Ronald Reagan politicsgovernmentbusiness We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent. Ronald Reagan politicsplayworld I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. Ronald Reagan catpoliticsmoney
