Quotes

Reagan on Free Enterprise

“It's people, not government, who create wealth, provide growth, and ensure prosperity.”

November 29, 1986

“It's people, not government, who create wealth, provide growth, and ensure prosperity. That may sound elementary enough, but the history or our economic difficulties, especially the terribly big deficits we run each year, stem directly from our failure to remember that government consumes wealth, it doesn't create it.”

— Radio Address to the Nation on the Deficit