Ronald Reagan

"Socialism only works

in two places:

Heaven, where they don't need it, and hell where they already have it."

- Ronald Reagan

"Here's my strategy on

the Cold War: We win, they lose.'

- Ronald Reagan

"The most terrifying words

in the English language are:

I'm from the government

and I'm here to help."

- 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

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

- Ronald Reagan

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

- 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

"Government is like a baby:

an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest

profession.

I have learned that it bears a

striking resemblance to the first."

- Ronald Reagan

"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

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed,

there are many rewards;

if you disgrace yourself,

you can always write a book."

- Ronald Reagan

"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."

- Ronald Reagan