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“Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.”

As quoted in Sacramento Bee (28 April 1966)
1960s

“Please tell me you're Republicans.”

Speaking to surgeons as he entered the operating room following a 1981 assassination attempt. http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=26804&pageIndex=1 To which Dr. Joseph Giordano replied, "We're all Republicans today." An alternative version has Reagan saying "Please tell me you're Republicans." (30 March 1981)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Variant: I hope you're all Republican.
Source: Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches

“A people free to choose will always choose peace.”

Variant: A people free to choose will always choose peace

“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.”

Joke during his 1965 campaign for Governor of California, as quoted by Leo E. Litwak in The New York Times Magazine (14 November 1965), p. 174 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50F13FC3B591B7A93C6A8178AD95F418685F9.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
As quoted in The Reagan Wit (1981) by Bill Adler, p. 30
1960s