"...government programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until one day...we will
wake to find that we have socialism, and...one of these days we are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, what
it once was like in America when men were free.


-Ronald Reagan/Norman Thomas




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


- President Ronald Reagan (January 20, 1981)




"We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around."


- President Ronald Reagan (January 20, 1981)




"From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is
superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern
someone else?"


- President Ronald Reagan (January 20, 1981)