I didn’t realize how much we miss him, until I read and remembered some of the stuff he said and stood for.
“Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.”
- Ronald Reagan
“The most terrifying words in the English language are:
I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
- Ronald Reagan
“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re
ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
- Ronald Reagan
“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about
because the U.S. was too strong.”
- Ronald Reagan
“I have wondered at times about what the Ten
Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run
them through the U.S. Congress.”
- Ronald Reagan
“The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal
government but doesn’t have to take the civil service
examination.”
- Ronald Reagan
“Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big
appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the
other.”
- Ronald Reagan
“The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this
earth is a government program.”
- Ronald Reagan
“I’ve laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on
about anything that happens: no matter what time it is,
wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.”
- Ronald Reagan
“It has been said that politics is the second oldest
profession. I have learned that it bears a striking
resemblance to the first.”
- Ronald Reagan
“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.”
- Ronald Reagan
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are
many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always
write a book.”
- Ronald Reagan
“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.”
- Ronald Reagan
“If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then
we will be a nation gone under.”
- Ronald Reagan
