Ronald Reagan

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.”

“Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.”

“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.”

“The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.”

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

“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

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

“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”

“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”

“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”

“A people free to choose will always choose peace.”

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

“Trust, but verify.”

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

“Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.”

“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”

“What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.”

“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”

“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.”

“If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.”

“Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race we kept them free we kept the faith.”

“You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.”

“It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.”