Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the American experiment in individual liberty, free enterprise and republican self-government could succeed only if power were widely distributed. And since in any society social and political power flow from economic power, they saw that wealth and property would have to be widely distributed among the people of the country. The truth of this insight is immediately apparent.
Ronald ReaganWelfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald ReaganOne of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.
Ronald ReaganThere are only two things that the liberals don't understand: the things that change and the things that don't.
Ronald Reagan