Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. – Ronald Reagan
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. – Ronald Reagan
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. – Ronald Reagan
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. – Ronald Reagan
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. – Ronald Reagan
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so. – Ronald Reagan
Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. – Ronald Reagan
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-spirited philanthropist’. – Ronald Reagan
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known. – Ronald Reagan
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help. – Ronald Reagan
Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem. – Ronald Reagan
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. – Ronald Reagan
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 Reagan
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. – Ronald Reagan
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. – Ronald Reagan
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. – Ronald Reagan
The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination. – Ronald Reagan
