Ronald Reagan Federal Quotations

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.

Cures were developed for which there were no known diseases. (Commenting on Congress and the federal budget, 1981)

We think there is a parallel between the Federal involvement in education and the decline in quality over recent years.

It's time we reduced the federal budget and left the family budget alone.

Government is bad when it takes more than 30 percent of a taxpayer's income in taxes. Proudhon was wrong when he said property is theft; it's our federal budget that is institutionalized theft.

The Federal Reserve is answerable to no one.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.