"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right,
but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right.
There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream --
the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --
or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.
Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives,
those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on
this downward path. Plutarch warned,
'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he
who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.'"
-- Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.2508

"Nations crumble from within when the citizenry
asks of government those things which
the citizenry might better provide for itself. ...
[I] hope we have once again reminded people that
man is not free unless government is limited.
There's a clear cause and effect here that
is as neat and predictable as a law of physics:
As government expands, liberty contracts."
-- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th US President

"I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal
Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code
and it reads: 'For purposes of paragraph 3, an organization described
in paragraph 2 shall be deemed to include an organization described
in section 501C-4, 5, or 6, which would be described in paragraph 2
if it were an organization described in section 501C-3.' And that's
just one sentence out of those fifty-seven feet of books."
-- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th US President
http://www.liberty-tree.ca/qb/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.B6DA

"Government is like a baby.  An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end
and no sense of responsibility at the other." -- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th US 
President
http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.D203

"Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or 
government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is 
infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put 
there for a reason and has something to offer. It's so hard for government 
planners, no matter how sophisticated, to ever substitute for millions of 
individuals working night and day to make their dreams come true. The fact 
is, bureaucracies are a problem around the world."
-- Ronald Wilson Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President, Humorist, Actor.
Source: Speech at Moscow State University, 05/31/88 
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.73AA

"Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor
or does government have some presumptive right
to spend and spend and spend?"
-- Ronald W. Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.B6D6


"Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and
discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to
traditional proportionate taxation? ...
Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents
of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile,
so close to slipping from our grasp."
-- Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.B6D2


"The federal government has taken
too much tax money from the people,
too much authority from the states, and
too much liberty with the Constitution."
-- Ronald Wilson Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.70F8