Ronald Reagan Quotes About Mistakes

• When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Government, Years

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

• Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Abortion, Demand

  "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation". Book by Ronald Reagan, 1983.

• You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Age, Aging

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.208, Humanix Books

• I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember one bleak night in the thirties when my father learned on Christmas Eve that he'd lost his job. To be young in my generation was to feel that your future had been mortgaged out from under you, and that's a tragic mistake we must never allow our leaders to make again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, Father, Mistake

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

• Congressional mistakes have dramatically increased immigration through a series of what I believe were ill-advised actions going back to 1965 when the basic notions of our immigration laws were revised. In 1990, Congress opened the floodgates by passing a 35-percent increase in legal immigration.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Believe, Law

• In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Artist, Thinking

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

• One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Worst

• I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment [limiting the presidency to two terms] was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him?

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Two, Government

• You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You put things in perspective. You pull your energies together. You change. You go forward. My fellow Americans, I have a great deal that I want to accomplish with you and for you over the next two years. And, the Lord willing, that's exactly what I intend to do.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Years, Two

  Iran Contra Address to the Nation, delivered 4 March 1987, Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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