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If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in. — Ronald Reagan

I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves. — Ronald Reagan

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service. — Ronald Reagan

Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan

Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves. — Ronald Reagan

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people. — Ronald Reagan

The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan — Chris Matthews

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. — Ronald Reagan

My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government. — Ronald Reagan

The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector. — Ronald Reagan

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it. — Ronald Reagan

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor. — Ronald Reagan

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them. — Ronald Reagan

Man is not free unless government is limited. — Ronald Reagan

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive — Ronald Reagan

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. — Ronald Reagan

Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy — Ronald Reagan

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid. — Ronald Reagan

For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God — Ronald Reagan

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp. — Ronald Reagan

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard. — Ronald Reagan

No government has ever voluntarily reduced itself in size - and that, in a way, became my theme. — Ronald Reagan

We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth. — Ronald Reagan

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend? — 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 never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us. — Ronald Reagan

As government expands, liberty contracts. — Ronald Reagan

This administration is totally colorblind. — Ronald Reagan

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks. — Ronald Reagan

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody. — Ronald Reagan

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind. — Ronald Reagan

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. — Ronald Reagan

The government is like a baby's
alimentary canal, with a happy
appetite at one end and no
responsibility at the other. — Ronald Reagan

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. — Ronald Reagan

I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. — Ronald Reagan

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

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. — Ronald Reagan

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems — Ronald Reagan

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy. — Ronald Reagan

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. — Ronald Reagan

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much. — Ronald Reagan

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won. — Ronald Reagan

Do Americans want the government to micromanage every aspect of our lives? President Ronald Reagan certainly didn't. — Kimberly Guilfoyle

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution. — Ronald Reagan

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program. — Ronald Reagan

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question. — Ronald Reagan

The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program — Ronald Reagan

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. — Ronald Reagan

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow. — Ronald Reagan

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly. — Ronald Reagan

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats. — Ronald Reagan

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government. — Ronald Reagan

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. — Ronald Reagan

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. — Ronald Reagan

We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government. — Ronald Reagan

It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth. — Ronald Reagan

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around. — Ronald Reagan

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems. — Ronald Reagan

No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers. — Ronald Reagan

I don't have too much time for fiction. — Ronald Reagan

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating. — Ronald Reagan

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem. — Ronald Reagan

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy. — Timothy Noah

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now. — 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

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long. — Ronald Reagan

You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11. — Aaron McGruder

Either you will control your government, or government will control you. — Ronald Reagan

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth. — Ronald Reagan

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it. — Ronald Reagan

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

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. — Ronald Reagan

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem. — Ronald Reagan

I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar. — Ronald Reagan

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit. — Ronald Reagan