Quote

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

Ronald Reagan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ronald Reagan
Age: 93 †
Born: 1911
Born: February 6
Died: 2004
Died: June 5
40Th U.S. President
Actor
Autobiographer
Character Actor
Diarist
Film Actor
Military Officer
Politician
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Tampico
Illinois
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Ronald W. Reagan
Ronald W Reagan
President Reagan
President Ronald Reagan
R. W. Reagan
Desire
Libertarianism
Individual
Libertarian
Government
Basis
Bases
Conservative
Authority
Centralized
Freedom
Interference
Less
Conservatism

More quotes by Ronald Reagan

Image
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
Ronald Reagan
Image
Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.
Ronald Reagan
Image
Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.
Ronald Reagan
Image
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
Image
With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.
Ronald Reagan
Image
Let us thank God for life and the blessings He's put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year.
Ronald Reagan
Image
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
Ronald Reagan
Image
Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide.
Ronald Reagan
Image
I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.
Ronald Reagan
Image
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.
Ronald Reagan
Image
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
Image
I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)
Ronald Reagan
Image
America's economic strength depends on industry's ability to improve productivity and quality and to remain on the cutting edge of technology, and that's why the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is so important.
Ronald Reagan
Image
These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.
Ronald Reagan
Image
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.
Ronald Reagan
Image
America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side.
Ronald Reagan
Image
[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House
Ronald Reagan