R.D. Ronald Quotes

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.

The current tax code is a daily mugging.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - ‘We the people’.

We are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

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?

Supermarket companies are big logistics companies, and one of the ways we've increased profitability in the past is by re-evaluating how they do logistics.

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work.

Resiliency is the key to love.

The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.

The only way for a soldier to not be afraid of wars is to accept the fact that he is already dead.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

The so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack of a more thorough analysis of the data.

What people resist is not change per se, but loss.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point.

One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.

This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written

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.

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

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

Attention is the currency of leadership.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

People do not make wars; governments do.

The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic.

The only hope you have is to accept the fact that youre already dead.

America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.