"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is...
As government expands, liberty contracts.
More Ronald Reagan quotes
"If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".
"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and...
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-s...
"Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive
"I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?
"Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.
"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's ju...
"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to...
"Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
"Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping f...