Monday, February 18, 2008

Quotes by Ronald Reagan


  • '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.'
  • 'The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so.'
  • 'Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong.'
  • 'I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.'
  • 'The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.'
  • 'Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.'
  • 'The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.'
  • 'I've laid down the law, though, to everyone, from now on anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.'
  • 'It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.'
  • '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.'
  • '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 so 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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