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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?
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
- 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.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
- 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.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Weekly 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.”
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Time (17 May 1976)
- Economics
- Government
I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Speech threatening to veto legislation raising taxes (13 March 1985)
- Clever Jabs
I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004The Evil Empire (1983)
- History
Government doesn’t “intrude” on the “free market.” It creates the market.
Robert Reichborn 1946Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few (2015)
- Economics
- Government
In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Preface to the Third Edition (August 1942)
Men of all countries are brothers, and the different peoples should help one another according to their ability like citizens of the same state.
Maximilien Robespierre1758–1794Proposed Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, speech to the National Convention (24 April 1793)
- Charity
I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat!
Will Rogers1879–1935Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom (1935), Ch. 9 “Rogers was a lifelong Democrat but he studiously avoided partisanship
The more you read about politics, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Illiterate Digest (1924), “Breaking into the Writing Game”
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Will Rogers1879–1935Daily Telegram #1538, The First Good News of the 1928 Campaign! Mr. Rogers Says He Will Not Run For Anything (28 June 1931)
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Illiterate Digest (1924), “Breaking into the Writing Game”
I tell you Folks, all Politics is Apple Sauce.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Illiterate Digest (1924)
- Comedy
I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers1879–1935As quoted in P. J. O’Brien, Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom (1935), Ch. 9
- Comedy