Ronald Reagan Liberty Quotations

Man is not free unless government is limited.

They have answered the stirrings of liberty with brute force, killings, mass arrests, and the setting up of concentration camps.

the Berlin Wall came down, the Evil Empire collapsed, and the cause of liberty prevailed in the world.

Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.

Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind - too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail. Both deny those God-given liberties that are the inalienable right of each person on this planet, indeed, they deny the existence of God.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.