Ronald Reagan Quotes

Ever since I posted Ronald Reagan's speech, "A Time for Choosing", he has been on my mind. I miss him. I found a few of his great one-liner quotes.

--Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.

--The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

--The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

--Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

--I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.

--The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

--Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

--The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.

--It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

--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.

--Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.

--No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

--If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.