Quotes

Reagan on Government

“Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”

March 30, 1981

“We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”

— Excerpted from Remarks at the national Conference of the Building and Construction Trades, AFL-CIO