Ronald Reagan Quotes About Revolution

• 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.

• Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people. It is the right to follow your dream, or stick to your conscience even if you're the only one in a sea of doubters.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Freedom, Ideas

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

• Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Democracy, World

  Ronald Reagan (1998). “A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan”

• I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.

  Ronald Reagan

  Father, Believe, Thinking

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

• Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the people.' 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the people' are free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, People, Car

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

• There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, we have it in our power to begin the world over again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Character, Men, People

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

• My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights

  Ronald Reagan

  Rights, Government, Land

• We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

  Ronald Reagan

  Dog, Mad, Goal

• During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution.

  Ronald Reagan

  Presidential, Leader, Answers

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

• My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let history say of us: "These were golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, and America reached for her best."

  Ronald Reagan

  Greatness, Years, America

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

• We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous. There are threats now to our freedom, indeed to our very existence, that other generations could never even have imagined. There is first the threat of global war. No president, no Congress, no prime minister, no parliament can spend a day entirely free of this threat. If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Technology, President

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

• We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began here in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous.

  Ronald Reagan

  Technology, World, Revolution

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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