When Ronald Reagan was US President and waxing anti-socialist policies in the mid-80s, I was a Marxist-socialist at that time. More than a decade later, I embraced Adam Smith and stayed away from Karl Marx. So I learned to appreciate Reagan, UK PM Margaret Thatcher.
Below some quotes from Reagan that I like. Enjoy.
1. August 12, 1986 press conf by Ronald Reagan:
"I think you all know that I’ve always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help. A great many of the current problems on the farm were caused by government-imposed embargoes and inflation, not to mention government’s long history of conflicting and haphazard policies."
2. 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.
3. We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
4. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
5. The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
7. We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
8. Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
9. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
10. The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
11. We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
12. One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
13. Man is not free unless government is limited.
14. Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
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Pol. Ideology 86, Endless crisis narratives and authoritarianism, August 27, 2023
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