"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."

"America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future."

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."

"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."

"A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live."

"My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget."

"People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation."

"As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary."