Ronald Reagan Quotes
Ronald Reagan
- “The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.”
- “Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.”
- “Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.”
- “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
- “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. And if it stops moving, subsidize it”
- “I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.”
- “Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”
- “It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”
- “The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.”
- “Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”
- “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
- “Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.”
- “No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.”
- “If we ever forget that we’re one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under.”
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