posted on Dec, 29 2011 @ 05:19 AM
Most are familiar with Ron Paul quotes, but I found it interesting that Ronald Reagan quotes look as though Ron Paul could have also said them.
Granted, Reagan made his mistakes, all of them do, but he was a Patriot, and an American who still believed in America. From the Quotations
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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and
women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
Ronald Reagan
Don't be afraid to see what you see.
Ronald Reagan
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Ronald Reagan
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for,
protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it
was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
Ronald Reagan
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 Lenin.
Ronald Reagan
I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan
If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are ready to move again.
Ronald Reagan
No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
Ronald Reagan
People don't start wars, governments do.
Ronald Reagan
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan
The 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.
Ronald Reagan
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
Ronald Reagan
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual
resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
Ronald Reagan
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Ronald Reagan
To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you
he will.
Ronald Reagan
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take
the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief
moment here. We did all that could be done.
Ronald Reagan
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
From brainyquotes.com
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
Ronald Reagan
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Ronald Reagan
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
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
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we
kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan
Man is not free unless government is limited.
Ronald Reagan
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the
nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald Reagan
One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald Reagan
Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald Reagan