“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.” —Ronald Reagan

“If America is to remain what God in his wisdom intended for it to be — a refuge, a safe haven for those seeking human rights — then we must once again extend the most basic human right to the most vulnerable members of the human family. We must commit ourselves to a future in which the right to life for every human being — no matter how weak, no matter how small, no matter how defenseless — is protected by our laws and public policy.”
   —Ronald Reagan

“You can’t be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.”
   —Ronald Reagan

'No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.'
  -- Ronald Reagan 

“The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed. When the British forgot that they got a revolution. And, as a result, we Americans got a Constitution; a Constitution that, as those who wrote it were determined, would keep men free. If we give up part of that Constitution we give up part of our freedom and increase the chance that we will lose it all. I am not ready to take that risk. I believe that the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms must not be infringed if liberty in America is to survive.”
    —Ronald Reagan