Famous Quotes

"I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted:  a better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.  Very simply, they want to be left alone in peace and safety to take care of the family by earning an honest dollar and putting away some savings.  This may not sound too exciting, but there is something magnificent about it.  On the farm, on the street corner, in the factory and in the kitchen, millions of us ask nothing more, but certainly nothing less, than to live our own lives according to our values -- at peace with ourselves, our neighbors and the world."  Ronald Reagan, 1976

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." Aristotle

"Efficiency of state governments is impaired as they relinquish and turn over to the federal government responsibilities which are rightly theirs."  Calvin Coolidge

"The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.  To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit...It is in violation of the traditions of America.  Franklin D. Roosevelt (seriously, he said this but he was one of worst for doling out during his administration!  Could not even take his own advise!)

"Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple.  Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicans who create deficits should exposed as tax hikers."  Ron Paul

"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."  Ronald Reagan