R.D. Ronald Quotes

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.

Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward: We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more.

When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

California produces 40% of America's fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts - the kind you eat. We have had a bumper crop of the other variety, too.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals.

He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

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.

It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

The best social reform program in the world is a job.

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.

The Federal Reserve is answerable to no one.

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.

The difference between the Old and the New Testament is the difference between a man who said "There is nothing new under the sun" and a God who says "Behold, I make all things new.

When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

I know at times we feel that perhaps in our prayers we ask too much. Or possibly we feel something isn't important enough to be bothering God with it. Maybe we should let Him decide these things.

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.