R.D. Ronald Quotes

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

We must have faith in the people of this country and faith in our principles.

Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic.

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.

People do not make wars; governments do.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

Let us thank God for life and the blessings He's put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year.

Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say.

A nation without borders is no nation at all.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.

Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought, and humbly accepted.

We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.

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.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Unless we take care of the society we live in, there won't be any society left to support our businesses. We have to give as much as we extract.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here.

For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

There are only two things that the liberals don't understand: the things that change and the things that don't.

By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.

Don't you ever want to see what's on the other side of the hill?

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.

There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.