In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

There is today in the United States as much forest as there was when Washington was at Valley Forge

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, “Give me a challenge and I’ll meet it with joy.”

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

We’ll have to get four bedpans and have a reunion

Well, I learned a lot… I went down to Latin America to find out from them and (learn) their views. You’d be surprised. They’re all individual countries

Facts are stupid things.

Let us beware that while they [Soviet rulers] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination over all the peoples of the earth, they are the...

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people’s income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government. . . . When it reaches 25%, there comes...

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

All systems are capitalist. It’s just a matter of who owns and controls the capital — ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system...

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Four years ago we said we would invigorate our economy by giving people greater freedom and incentives to take risks and letting them keep more of what they earned. We did what we promised, and...

These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere. . . . You can run but you can’t hide.

The history of our civilization, the great advances that made it possible, is not a story of cynics or doom criers. It is a gallant chronicle of the optimists, the determined people, men and women,...

If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business

You know, by the time you reach my age, you’ve made plenty of mistakes if you’ve lived your life properly.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

Touch you I must or I’ll burst, This morning I’m ambitious, proud, energetic and very madly in love with you.

We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

If you’re explaining, you’re losing.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem.

They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.

The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people — and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you,...

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

I consider all proposals for government action with an open mind before voting “no.”

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy.

Those who can lose the most usually do the least to change that.

They have answered the stirrings of liberty with brute force, killings, mass arrests, and the setting up of concentration camps.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‘fat cat’ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‘public-spirited philanthropist’.

Let me speak plainly: The United States of America is and must remain a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. Our very unity has been strengthened by this pluralism. That’s how we began;...

The current tax code is a daily mugging

The march of freedom and democracy . . . will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane, and smells like Cheetah

Our whole system of government is based on “We the people,” but if we the people don’t pay attention to what’s going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.

The Soviet leaders reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat and that the only morality they recognize is what will further their cause.

Most (tax revisions) didn’t improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself: complicated

In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem

I haven’t seen this much lard since I handed out blue ribbons at the Iowa State Fair,