For years, internet users have shared a quote about how to measure the success of welfare programs, attributing the words to Ronald Reagan, the former U.S. president and California governor.

President Ronald Reagan had an optimistic belief in people and individual freedom. He used the word “freedom” over a dozen times in his second inaugural address. He optimistically told ...

In 1989, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan delivered this farewell speech ... The sweet part is California and the ranch and freedom. The sorrow -- the goodbyes, of course, and leaving ...

The rest, as they say, is history. Often erroneously paired with this photo is a Reagan quote, "These gentlemen are the moral equivalent of the founding fathers." Reagan was in fact referring to ...

Traditionalism was mentioned in the quote but it was not given ... Reconciling Freedom, Tradition and Constitution, and was Ronald Reagan’s director of the Office of Personnel Management during ...