Ronald Reagan Quotes About Desire

• f you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals - if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

  "Reason" Magazine, July 1, 1975.

• Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Desire, Helping

  1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 17 July 1980, Detroit, MI

• And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sons and daughters of the same God. I believe we are bound by faith in our God, by our love for family and neighborhood, by our deep desire for a more peaceful world, and by our commitment to protect the freedom which is our legacy as Americans. These values have given a renewed sense of worth to our lives. They are infusing America with confidence and optimism that many thought we had lost.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Daughter, Religious

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

• I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land...Any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here.

  Ronald Reagan

  Land, Roots, America

• The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Desire, Libertarian

  "Reason" Magazine, July 1, 1975.

• We desire peace. But peace is a goal, not a policy. Lasting peace is what we hope for at the end of our journey. It doesn't describe the steps we must take nor the paths we should follow to reach that goal.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Journey, Goal

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.117, Humanix Books

• I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my own compassion goes beyond that to those millions of unsung men and women, who get up every morning, send the kids to school, go to work, try to keep up the payments on their house, pay exorbitant taxes to make possible compassion for the less fortunate, and as a result have to sacrifice many of their own desires and dreams and hopes. Government owes them something better than always finding a new way to make them share the fruit of their toils with others.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Morning, Sorry

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