Quotes

Reagan on Free Enterprise

“Only when the human spirit can dream, create, and build; only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their own success -- only then do societies become dynamic, prosperous, progressive, and free.”

September 25, 1984

“And while we would not impose our ideas, our policies, on anyone, we felt obliged to point out that no nation can have prosperity and successful development without economic freedom. Nor can it preserve personal and political freedoms without economic freedom. Only when the human spirit can dream, create, and build; only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their own success -- only then do societies become dynamic, prosperous, progressive, and free.”

— Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group