R.D. Ronald Quotes

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.

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 won't hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him.

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

Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'

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

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

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

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

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

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.

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

A man usually falls in love with the woman who asks the kind of questions he is able to answer.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems

Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front. And we thank God for them.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

People who think a tax boost will cure inflation are the same ones who believe another drink will cure a hangover.

Every new day begins with possibilities.

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

Church and state are, and must remain, separate.

Trees cause pollution.

Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.

Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.

After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.

We have every right to dream heroic dreams.

If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage.

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.

Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live.

Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.

Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism

. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?