"We were poor when I was young..." - Quote by Ronald Reagan

“One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.”

“I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.”

“Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.”

“Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.”

“So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.”

“Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.”

“A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.”

“Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.”

“It's very important that the determination of the US Congress to do what is is needed be made evident this week and by the actions of most of the members. I mean, you're not going to get total assent.”