Ronald Reagan Quotes About Welfare

• 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.

• How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Government, Political

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

• Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Military, Moving

  Remarks to state chairs of National White House Conference on Small Business, 15 Aug. 1986

• We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

  Ronald Reagan

  Success, Government Welfare, People

• I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Welfare, Function

• Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, Believe, Politics

• 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”

• Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more government largesse accompanied always by more government authority, less individual liberty, and ultimately, totalitarianism, always advanced as for our own good. The alternative is the dream conceived by our Founding Fathers, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Father, Government

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

• This is not to say that the government should confiscate from the "haves" and bestow upon the "have-nots", beyond the requirements of a compassionate welfare program to provide for those who cannot provide for themselves. Far from it. But it is to say that our duty is to foster a strong, vibrant wealth-producing economy which operates in such a way that new additions to wealth accrue to those who presently have little or no ownership stake in their country.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Strong, Government

• People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who think all of mankind's problems can be solved by throwing the taxpayers dollars at them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Tired, Thinking, Government

• The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Citizens, Return

• The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, People, Wealth

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

• Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.

  Ronald Reagan

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Reality

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

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