Ronald Reagan Individual Quotations

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 . . . 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.

Well, I learned a lot... I went down to Latin America to find out from them and (learn) their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries

And make no mistake about it, this attack was not just against ourselves or the Republic of Korea. This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among people everywhere. It was an act of barbarism born of a society which wantonly disregards individual rights and the value of human life and seeks constantly to expand and dominate other nations.

With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there's one individual who's not being considered at all. That's the one who is being aborted. And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.

I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

With freedom comes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual.

Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.