Quotes

Reagan on Free Enterprise, and America

“As I said in my first Inaugural Address, 'If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on Earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before.' The central role of government must be to nurture this genius, not to shackle it in a morass of regulations or to tax away the incentives for innovation.”

January 10, 1989

Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate Transmitting the Annual Economic Report of the President