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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.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Joke 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.
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Speech at the Republican National Convention, Platform Committee Meeting, Miami, Florida” (31 July 1968)
- Laws
- Responsibility
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.”
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Time (17 May 1976)
- Economics
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
Ronald Reagan1911–2004News Conference (12 August 1986)
The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people’s democracy. It’s the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Remarks at Human Rights Day event (10 December 1986)
- Clever Jabs
- Democracy
I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Farewell Address (1989)
- Freedom
Let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the Earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004The Evil Empire (1983)
- Good & Evil
Government doesn’t “intrude” on the “free market.” It creates the market.
Robert Reichborn 1946Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few (2015)
- Economics
Those who argue for “less government” are really arguing for a different government⁠—often one that favors them or their patrons.
Robert Reichborn 1946Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few (2015)
I believe that Facebook represents one of the gravest threats to democracies around the world, and I am amazed that we have allowed our freedoms to be taken away by technology companies’ greed for growth and revenues.
Maria Ressaborn 1963How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)
- Democracy
- Technology
If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can’t protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don’t need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.
Will Rogers1879–1935