Ronald Reagan Quotes About Poverty

• Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

  Ronald Reagan

  President, Needs, Purpose

  Los Angeles Times, January 7, 1970.

• America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Allies, World

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

• Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Vacation, Unemployment

  Ronald Reagan (1968). “I goofed: the wise and curious sayings of Ronald Reagan, 33rd Governor of California”

• Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Government, Years

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Presidential address: State of the Union, Monday, January 25, 1988”

• Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights that make for human dignity and progress. America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace. Every blow we inflict against poverty will be a blow against its dark allies of oppression and war. Every victory for human freedom will be a victory for world peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  Determination, War, Dark

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

• Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

  Ronald Reagan

  Kids, Poverty, Bobby Kennedy

• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Country, Sleep

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

• We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Poverty, War On Poverty

• We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, War, Fighting

  Ronald Reagan (1968). “The Creative Society: Some Comments on Problems Facing America”

• Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Done, Poverty

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

• Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

  Ronald Reagan

  Careers, People, Poverty

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