Ronald Reagan Quotes

Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.

As China grows economically, in its wake you will see a greater degree of political liberalization, a greater confidence in embracing the democratic principles …

If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.

The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.

We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

My view is the less the government can do and the more freedom and opportunity you give people, that trusting people and free people and free enterprise - that America has built the greatest country in the history of the world.

The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're billionaires!

Government does create prosperity and growth by creating the conditions that allow both entrepreneurs and their customers to thrive; balancing the power of capitalists like me and workers isn't bad for capitalism - it's essential to it.

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.

If we just go back to the basics... I do not want to give up our republic and become a socialistic ideological nation. That's not who we are.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

Some cultures and some religions do better than others in promoting democracy and prosperity…. Where culture is adverse, a blind belief in the power of freedom is a frail foundation for U. S. policy.

The American people believe that we ought to control our government. On the other hand, we've seen government more and more controlling us

He who is the most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power is as eager after for the prerogatives of government.

Our prosperity comes from something that is really marvellous—that is unlimited freedom.

Republics are not in and of themselves better than other forms of government except in so far as they carry with them and guarantee to the citizen that liberty of thought and action for which they were established.

America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

The role of government is, I believe, the most potent but underappreciated cultural issue in American politics.