Being free and prosperous in a world at peace. That's our ultimate goal. |
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. |
Common sense told us that when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. So we cut the people's tax rates, and the people produced more than ever before." |
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. |
Cures were developed for which there were no known diseases. (Commenting on Congress and the federal budget, 1981) |
Dear Haley, did you hear the one about . . . |
Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in |
Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating. |
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. |
does not look kindly to this cutting-edge-type litigation. |
Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause. |
Draft registration destroys the very values that our society is committed to defending. |
Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do. |
During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution. |
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. |