[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.
Ronald ReaganProfessional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.
Ronald ReaganThe nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
Ronald ReaganWhen the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future.
Ronald ReaganFor centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity, the establishment of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery.
Ronald ReaganIn an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the . . . West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.
Ronald Reagan