While Republicans lick their wounds, some of Ronald Reagan's one liners might serve as a salve. A list of 40 was posted last summer at TownHall.com, and here are a select few from that list that seem apt today:
37) "Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."
27) "If you're explaining, you're losing."
26) "I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts."
24) "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
19) "Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
18) "It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so."
17) "A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."
8) "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
4) "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
3) "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
2) "We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much."
A trillion-dollar debt? Ah, the good old days. See the whole list here.
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