The quotations of

Ronald Reagan

40th President of the United States

1911–2004

77 quotes, most often on Government, Freedom and Economics. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder.
- Economics
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.
Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business (15 August 1986)
- Economics
One definition of an economist is somebody who sees something happen in practice and wonders if it will work in theory.
- Economics
A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.
- Government
The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we’ll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.
I think the best possible social program is a job.
- Government
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.
- Government
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefitting from their success⁠—only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free.
- Economics
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Joke during his 1965 campaign for Governor of California, as quoted by Leo E. Litwak in The New York Times Magazine (14 November 1965), p. 174.
- Government
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
- Government
Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
- Government
It is the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism- Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.
Address to Members of the British Parliament (1982)
- Politics
Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation?
- Economics
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.
- Government
We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.
- Economics

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