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.

Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.
- Economics
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
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
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
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
We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1982
- Economics
Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini’s success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say “But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.”
Time (17 May 1976)
- Economics
- Government

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