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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. -- Ronald Reagan
When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future. -- Ronald Reagan
I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people. -- Ronald Reagan
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision. -- Ronald Reagan
My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let history say of us: "These were golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, and America reached for her best." -- Ronald Reagan
Ran "Inchon" - it is a brutal but gripping picture about the Korean War and for once we're the good guys & the Communists are the villains. The producer was Japanese or Korean which probably explains the preceding sentence. -- Ronald Reagan
The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray -- Ronald Reagan
Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they're ready to operate on is your wallet. -- Ronald Reagan
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. -- Ronald Reagan
By emphasizing the importance of a common language, we safeguard a proud legacy and help to ensure that America's future will be as great as her past. -- Ronald Reagan
Whether meeting with leaders and parents concerned about drugs in Bonn, Lisbon, or with the Holy Father at the Vatican, or doing a pretty fair flamenco in Madrid, I think Nancy's one of the best ambassadors America's ever had. -- Ronald Reagan
As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future. -- Ronald Reagan
We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world -- Ronald Reagan
It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money! -- Ronald Reagan
An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory. -- Ronald Reagan
Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana. -- Ronald Reagan
You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard. -- Ronald Reagan
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between left or right. Well, I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down. -- Ronald Reagan
Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front. And we thank God for them. -- Ronald Reagan
Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got back, he wasn't sure where he'd been. But most important of all, he did it on someone else's money. -- Ronald Reagan
We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes. -- Ronald Reagan
America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward: We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more. -- Ronald Reagan
Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family. -- Ronald Reagan
I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together. -- Ronald Reagan
There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.' -- Ronald Reagan
In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Isreal was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tyranny and unrest. -- Ronald Reagan
Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? -- Ronald Reagan
Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world. -- Ronald Reagan
All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control. -- Ronald Reagan
We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him. -- Ronald Reagan
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. -- Ronald Reagan
We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. -- Ronald Reagan
As two proud and independent peoples, there is much that distinguishes us one from the other, but there is also much that we share: a vast continent, with its common hardships and uncommon duties; generations of mutual respect and support, and an abiding friendship that grows ever stronger. -- Ronald Reagan
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so. -- Ronald Reagan
California produces 40% of America's fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts - the kind you eat. We have had a bumper crop of the other variety, too. -- Ronald Reagan
Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage. -- Ronald Reagan
Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit. -- Ronald Reagan
Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren't becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we've always been a nation of doers. -- Ronald Reagan
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology. -- Ronald Reagan
The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it. -- Ronald Reagan
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. -- Ronald Reagan
Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live. -- Ronald Reagan
The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our freedoms. -- Ronald Reagan
A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must ... be undaunted when the going gets tough. -- Ronald Reagan
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster. -- Ronald Reagan
It is up to us in our time to choose, and choose wisely, between the hard but necessary task of preserving peace and freedom, and the temptation to ignore our duty and blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger day by day. -- Ronald Reagan
A people free to choose will always choose peace. -- Ronald Reagan
Labor force needs and economic conditions are disregarded in our policies. Many aspects of our current policies and procedures are patently wrong. For example, legal immigration has almost no link to U.S. employment needs or economic conditions. -- Ronald Reagan
I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -- Ronald Reagan
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. -- Ronald Reagan
Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. -- Ronald Reagan
This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals. -- Ronald Reagan
Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible. -- Ronald Reagan
I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual. -- Ronald Reagan
We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending. -- Ronald Reagan
I hope Americans will read and study the Bible in the coming year. It's my firm belief that the enduring values, as I say, presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation. -- Ronald Reagan
When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far. -- Ronald Reagan
They are our brothers, these freedom fighters ... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong. -- Ronald Reagan
Here's my formula: I usually start with a joke or story to catch the audience's attention; then I tell them what I am going to tell them, I tell them, and then I tell them what I just told them. -- Ronald Reagan
America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side. -- Ronald Reagan
I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. -- Ronald Reagan
We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich. -- Ronald Reagan
Are you better off now than you were four years ago? -- Ronald Reagan
An informed patriotism is what we want. -- Ronald Reagan
I know at times we feel that perhaps in our prayers we ask too much. Or possibly we feel something isn't important enough to be bothering God with it. Maybe we should let Him decide these things. -- Ronald Reagan
There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start. -- Ronald Reagan
I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast -- Ronald Reagan
The current tax code is a daily mugging. -- Ronald Reagan
The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part. -- Ronald Reagan
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. -- Ronald Reagan
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.' -- Ronald Reagan
When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale. -- Ronald Reagan
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature. -- Ronald Reagan
Among the things he passed on to me were the belief that all men and women, regardless of their color or religion, are created equal and that individuals determine their own destiny; that is, it's largely their own ambition and hard work that determine their fate in life. -- Ronald Reagan
Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it. -- Ronald Reagan
Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again. -- Ronald Reagan
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. -- Ronald Reagan
I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other. -- Ronald Reagan
[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world. -- Ronald Reagan
I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology. -- Ronald Reagan
Our goals are the same as those of the U.N.'s founders, who sought to replace a world at war with one where the rule of law would prevail, where human rights were honored, where development would blossom, where conflict would give way to freedom from violence. -- Ronald Reagan
It is true that I opposed quotas in employment, education, and other areas. I consider quotas, whether they favor blacks or whites, men or women, to be a new form of discrimination as bad as the old ones. -- Ronald Reagan
By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things. -- Ronald Reagan
[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism. -- Ronald Reagan
I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse. -- Ronald Reagan
For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ. -- Ronald Reagan
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip. -- Ronald Reagan
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite. -- Ronald Reagan
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. -- Ronald Reagan
I didn't leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me. -- Ronald Reagan
May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism. -- Ronald Reagan
I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority. -- Ronald Reagan
Some may try to tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming. -- Ronald Reagan
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! -- Ronald Reagan
We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. -- Ronald Reagan
The American people aren't overtaxed. The government in Washington is overfed. The main difference between ourselves and the other side is: we see an America where every day is the Fourth of July. They see an America where every day is April 15. -- Ronald Reagan
The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes. -- Ronald Reagan
It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what "America" means. -- Ronald Reagan
When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to our people. -- Ronald Reagan
The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith. -- Ronald Reagan
I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands. -- Ronald Reagan
Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything. -- Ronald Reagan
Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political. -- Ronald Reagan
We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn't waiting for us to wake up, He isn't maybe running out of patience. -- Ronald Reagan
We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya) -- Ronald Reagan
America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts. -- Ronald Reagan
The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya) -- Ronald Reagan
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God. -- Ronald Reagan
We have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? -- Ronald Reagan
We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much. -- Ronald Reagan
Human beings are not animals, and I do not want to see sex and sexual differences treated as casually and amorally as dogs and other beasts treat them. I believe this could happen under the ERA. -- Ronald Reagan
The press is dying to paint me as now trying to undo the New Deal. I remind them I voted for F.D.R. 4 times. I'm trying to undo the "Great Society." It was L.B.J.'s war on poverty that led to our present mess. -- Ronald Reagan
There is no love like a mother's - she who carries the child that God knits in the womb, she who nourishes and guides, she who teaches and inspires, she who gives of her heart and soul and self for the good and the happiness of her children and her family. -- Ronald Reagan
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child. -- Ronald Reagan
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15. -- Ronald Reagan
I have no recollection of that ever happening. -- Ronald Reagan
If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O! -- Ronald Reagan
The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects ... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it. -- Ronald Reagan
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer. -- Ronald Reagan
The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and so many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution 165 authorized and requested the President to designate the year 1983 as the 'Year of the Bible.' -- Ronald Reagan
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution. -- Ronald Reagan
Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program. -- Ronald Reagan
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or corporation. -- Ronald Reagan
Our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big spenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how to spend your money than you, the people, do. But we're not going to let them do it, period. -- Ronald Reagan
My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress. -- Ronald Reagan
Let us thank God for life and the blessings He's put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year. -- Ronald Reagan
We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to. -- Ronald Reagan
I don't think we'll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to balance the budget. And we need to give our presidents a line-item veto. -- Ronald Reagan
Mr. President: We, women political prisoners of the Soviet Union, congratulate you on your reelection to the spot of President of the USA. We look with hope to your country which is on the road of FREEDOM and respect for HUMAN RIGHTS. We wish you success on this road. -- Ronald Reagan
The best way to get over a dog's death is to get another soon. -- Ronald Reagan
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. -- Ronald Reagan
I don't have too much time for fiction. -- Ronald Reagan
I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance? -- Ronald Reagan
You know, if Nancy Davis hadn't come along when she did, I would have lost my soul. -- Ronald Reagan
Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest. -- Ronald Reagan
Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level. -- Ronald Reagan
If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip -- Ronald Reagan
Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression. -- Ronald Reagan
I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask. -- Ronald Reagan
BY THE EARLY 1960S, GE was receiving more speaking invitations for me from around the country than I could handle. And, although I was still saying the same things that I'd said for six years during the Eisenhower administration, I was suddenly being called a right-wing extremist. -- Ronald Reagan
If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it. -- Ronald Reagan
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era. -- Ronald Reagan
My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best. -- Ronald Reagan
The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. -- Ronald Reagan
What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both. -- Ronald Reagan
In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it. -- Ronald Reagan
I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter. -- Ronald Reagan
Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence. -- Ronald Reagan
The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer. -- Ronald Reagan
It's said that prayer can move mountains. Well, it's certainly moved the hearts and minds of Americans in their times of trial and helped them to achieve a society that, for all its imperfections, is still the envy of the world and the last, best hope of mankind. -- Ronald Reagan
Honey, I forgot to duck -- Ronald Reagan
It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag. -- Ronald Reagan
I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security. -- Ronald Reagan
The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated. -- Ronald Reagan
God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms. -- Ronald Reagan
You can't help those who simply will not be helped. One problem that we've had, even in the best of times, is people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice. -- Ronald Reagan
I feel that the whole Western World will benefit by the resurrection of the neutron bomb project. -- Ronald Reagan
We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. -- Ronald Reagan
Please tell me you're Republicans. -- Ronald Reagan
Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family. -- Ronald Reagan
Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth. -- Ronald Reagan
No government has ever voluntarily reduced itself in size - and that, in a way, became my theme. -- Ronald Reagan
Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget. -- Ronald Reagan
We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won -- Ronald Reagan
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. -- Ronald Reagan
Cars don't cause pollution, trees do. -- Ronald Reagan
The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him. -- Ronald Reagan
Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other. -- Ronald Reagan
They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country. -- Ronald Reagan
Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way -- Ronald Reagan
Since the foundation of the State of Israel, the United States has stood by her and helped her to pursue security, peace, and economic growth. Our friendship is based on historic moral and strategic ties, as well as our shared dedication to democracy. -- Ronald Reagan
Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do. -- Ronald Reagan
For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty. -- Ronald Reagan
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. -- Ronald Reagan
The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks. -- Ronald Reagan
If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand. -- Ronald Reagan
A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely? -- Ronald Reagan
He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and a true American champion. -- Ronald Reagan
It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause. -- Ronald Reagan
When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal for them to do that. -- Ronald Reagan
What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal. -- Ronald Reagan
Since I came to the White House, I've gotten two hearing aids, had a colon operation, a prostate operation, skin cancer, and I've been shot ... damn thing is, I've never felt better. -- Ronald Reagan
I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law ... the United States must institute comprehensive reforms that conform to the realities of the era in which we live. -- Ronald Reagan
An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either. -- Ronald Reagan
I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him. -- Ronald Reagan
And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do. -- Ronald Reagan
I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world. -- Ronald Reagan
Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war. -- Ronald Reagan
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. -- Ronald Reagan
I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting. -- Ronald Reagan
There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around. -- Ronald Reagan
At my first press conference I was asked whether we could trust the Soviet Union, and I said that the answer to that question could be found in the writings of Soviet leaders: It had always been their philosophy that it was moral to lie or cheat for the purpose of advancing Communism. -- Ronald Reagan
Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if the rising crime rate, isn't due as much as anything to the criminal's instinctive knowledge that the average victim no longer has means of self-protection. -- Ronald Reagan
Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children. -- Ronald Reagan
What would this country be without this great land of ours. -- Ronald Reagan
We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals. -- Ronald Reagan
The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity. -- Ronald Reagan
We desire peace. But peace is a goal, not a policy. Lasting peace is what we hope for at the end of our journey. It doesn't describe the steps we must take nor the paths we should follow to reach that goal. -- Ronald Reagan
Aren't lazy or unwilling to work: they just don't know how to free themselves from the welfare security blanket. -- Ronald Reagan
You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further. -- Ronald Reagan
It would seem that not only is religion lacking in the schools - so is common sense. I wonder what a teacher is supposed to say if a kid asks about those four words on a dime - 'In God We Trust.' Or maybe that's why they aren't being taught how to read these days. -- Ronald Reagan
Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but absent enforcement, there are too many accidents. -- Ronald Reagan
The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program. -- Ronald Reagan
I more than love you, I'm not whole without you. You are life itself to me. When you are gone I'm waiting for you to return so I can start living again. -- Ronald Reagan
I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow) -- Ronald Reagan
Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating. -- Ronald Reagan
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. -- Ronald Reagan
To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will. -- Ronald Reagan
I thanked Nancy for what she had accomplished in her war against illegal drugs, but in my heart, I was really trying to say, "Thank you, Nancy, for everything; thank you for lighting up my life for almost forty years. -- Ronald Reagan
History is made by men and women of vision and courage. Tonight freedom is on the march. -- Ronald Reagan
It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts. -- Ronald Reagan
It doesn't do any good to hold the door open for someone if they don't have a way to walk through it. And if they do have a way to pass through it then you probably don't need to hold it open because they can open it for themselves. -- Ronald Reagan
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God. -- Ronald Reagan
Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow. -- Ronald Reagan
I think growing up in a small town is a good foundation for anyone who decides to enter politics. You get to know people as individuals, not as blocs or members of special interest groups. -- Ronald Reagan
I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told. -- Ronald Reagan
The things that unite us-America's past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us. -- Ronald Reagan
The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation. -- Ronald Reagan
Trees, how many of 'em do we need to look at? -- Ronald Reagan
Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.' -- Ronald Reagan
Where there's liberty, art succeeds. -- Ronald Reagan
More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures. -- Ronald Reagan
The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations. -- Ronald Reagan
Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first Pilgrims and pioneers. And as Americans wander through these forests, climb these mountains, they will sense the love and majesty of the Creator of all of that. -- Ronald Reagan
One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors. -- Ronald Reagan
My friends, we did it. We weren't just marking time, we made a difference. We made (America) stronger - we made (America) freer - and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad. Not bad at all. And so, goodbye. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America. -- Ronald Reagan
Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right. -- Ronald Reagan
I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.' -- Ronald Reagan
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available. -- Ronald Reagan
The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find it. -- Ronald Reagan
I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development. -- Ronald Reagan
What of all the entrepreneurs that fail? Well, many do, particularly the successful ones; often several times. And if you ask them the secret of their success, they'll tell you it's all that they learned in their struggles along the way; yes, it's what they learned from failing. -- Ronald Reagan
The most confident person in any transaction ALWAYS introduces themselves first. -- Ronald Reagan
My philosophy and my belief was that there was a long way for us to go in improving what we had ever known before, that this country of ours was a country of constant improvement. And so I thought that, well, what my whole approach was based on the promise of a better America. -- Ronald Reagan
Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond. Where others seek to throw up barriers, we seek to bring them down; where others take counsel of their fears, we follow our hopes. -- Ronald Reagan
Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country. -- Ronald Reagan
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock. -- Ronald Reagan
I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems. And I'm old enough to remember when quotas existed in the United States for the purpose of discrimination, and I don't want to see that happen again. -- Ronald Reagan
The best social reform program in the world is a job. -- Ronald Reagan
Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management. This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government. -- Ronald Reagan
Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother. -- Ronald Reagan
Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer. -- Ronald Reagan
We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests. -- Ronald Reagan
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong. -- Ronald Reagan
Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, What do you suppose the old fox meant by that? -- Ronald Reagan
I couldn t help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We d find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together -- Ronald Reagan
Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality. -- Ronald Reagan
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land. -- Ronald Reagan
One picture is worth 1,000 denials. -- Ronald Reagan
A nation without borders is no nation at all. -- Ronald Reagan
We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots. -- Ronald Reagan
The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear. -- Ronald Reagan
I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City. -- Ronald Reagan
We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill. -- Ronald Reagan
Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment. -- Ronald Reagan
My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights -- Ronald Reagan
I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things. -- Ronald Reagan
Radio was theater of the mind. -- Ronald Reagan
My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government. -- Ronald Reagan
Freedom-loving people around the world must say ... I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism. -- Ronald Reagan
The federal government must and shall quit this business of relief. Continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. -- Ronald Reagan
I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. -- Ronald Reagan
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity, the establishment of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery. -- Ronald Reagan
I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show. -- Ronald Reagan
It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized. -- Ronald Reagan
Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.' But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector. -- Ronald Reagan
Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life. -- Ronald Reagan
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history ... [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people. -- Ronald Reagan
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers. -- Ronald Reagan
Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem. -- Ronald Reagan
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights. -- Ronald Reagan
Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP. -- Ronald Reagan
Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan
It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp. -- Ronald Reagan
I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor. -- Ronald Reagan
Isn't it interesting that all of those people who support the choice of abortion have already been born? -- Ronald Reagan
While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom. -- Ronald Reagan
Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake ... don't get cynical. -- Ronald Reagan
You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit. -- Ronald Reagan
One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all. -- Ronald Reagan
In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations. -- Ronald Reagan
If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last. -- Ronald Reagan
I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America. -- Ronald Reagan
I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment. -- Ronald Reagan
Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook. -- Ronald Reagan
You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind. -- Ronald Reagan
In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience. -- Ronald Reagan
I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him. -- Ronald Reagan
I'd like to harness their youthful energy with a strap. -- Ronald Reagan
What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice. -- Ronald Reagan
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. -- Ronald Reagan
Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power. -- Ronald Reagan
The Federal Reserve is answerable to no one. -- Ronald Reagan
I believe we must resolve the problem at our southern border with full regard to the problems and needs of Mexico. I have suggested legalizing the entry of Mexican labor into this country on much the same basis you proposed, although I have not put it into the sense of restoring the bracero program. -- Ronald Reagan
I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess-we're not connected to the press room yet, are we? -- Ronald Reagan
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. -- Ronald Reagan
Stick to your dreams and determine that you're going to make them come true. -- Ronald Reagan
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -- Ronald Reagan
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. -- Ronald Reagan
Congressional mistakes have dramatically increased immigration through a series of what I believe were ill-advised actions going back to 1965 when the basic notions of our immigration laws were revised. In 1990, Congress opened the floodgates by passing a 35-percent increase in legal immigration. -- Ronald Reagan
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face. -- Ronald Reagan
The Polish people be allowed to have a voice in the kind of govt. they want. Under the Yalta Pact the Soviets agreed they & others would be allowed to do this. The Soviets have never honored that promise. -- Ronald Reagan
I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight, we have. -- Ronald Reagan
We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. -- Ronald Reagan
And let us never forget that in honoring our flag, we honor the American men and women who have courageously fought and died for it over the last 200 years, patriots who set an ideal above any consideration of self. Our flag flies free today because of their sacrifice. -- Ronald Reagan
Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no. -- Ronald Reagan
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out. -- Ronald Reagan
Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly. -- Ronald Reagan
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas. -- Ronald Reagan
The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we're spirits - not animals ... . There's something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty. -- Ronald Reagan
Of the many messages found in the Hanukah story, the one that has always inspired me most is this: with a strong faith in the Almighty, nothing is impossible; and without the help of our Creator, we labor in vain. -- Ronald Reagan
But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing
the giving of a tenth . -- Ronald Reagan
Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them. -- Ronald Reagan
Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning. -- Ronald Reagan
Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free. -- Ronald Reagan
Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been. -- Ronald Reagan
We must always meet our obligation to those who fall behind without our assistance. But let's remember, without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence - in education or any other walk of life. -- Ronald Reagan
I'm convinced, more than ever, that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man. -- Ronald Reagan
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. -- Ronald Reagan
America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage. -- Ronald Reagan
Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back. -- Ronald Reagan
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. -- Ronald Reagan
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. -- Ronald Reagan
Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would. -- Ronald Reagan
There are no limits to growth and human progress
when men and women are free to follow their dreams. -- Ronald Reagan
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. -- Ronald Reagan
Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence. -- Ronald Reagan
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. -- Ronald Reagan
Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men. -- Ronald Reagan
There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones. -- Ronald Reagan
Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive ... [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American -- Ronald Reagan
America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill. -- Ronald Reagan
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism -- Ronald Reagan
If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in. -- Ronald Reagan
There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war. It's to be prepared for peace. There's a sign over the entrance to the Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state, and that sign says it all: 'Peace is our profession'. -- Ronald Reagan
I just have to believe that with love for our natural heritage and a firm resolve to preserve it with wisdom and care, we can and will give the American land to our children, not impaired, but enhanced. And in doing this, we'll honor the great and loving God who gave us this land in the first place. -- Ronald Reagan
When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.' -- Ronald Reagan
I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources. -- Ronald Reagan
Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest. -- Ronald Reagan
I oppose registration for the draft ... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom. -- Ronald Reagan
Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying. -- Ronald Reagan
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. -- Ronald Reagan
As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will not surrender for it - now or ever. -- Ronald Reagan
Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man. -- Ronald Reagan
These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere ... You can run but you can't hide. -- Ronald Reagan
Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill. -- Ronald Reagan
Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity? -- Ronald Reagan
You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes. -- Ronald Reagan
I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years. -- Ronald Reagan
We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor. -- Ronald Reagan
Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act. -- Ronald Reagan
Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. -- Ronald Reagan
A rebuke to Cong. How could it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing & talk by the hour. -- Ronald Reagan
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend? -- Ronald Reagan
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can't afford it. -- Ronald Reagan
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom. -- Ronald Reagan
Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought, and humbly accepted. -- Ronald Reagan
Are you better off than you were four years ago? One of my favorite quotes Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores ... Is there more or less unemployment? -- Ronald Reagan
Together, we'll build a far better future for America
a future of growth, opportunity, and security, anchored by the values of a people who are confident, compassionate, and whose heart is good. -- Ronald Reagan
For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system. -- Ronald Reagan
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. -- Ronald Reagan
During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution. -- Ronald Reagan
Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure. -- Ronald Reagan
Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July. -- Ronald Reagan
If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises". -- Ronald Reagan
We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention. -- Ronald Reagan
For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God -- Ronald Reagan
to campaign for her husband. -- Ronald Reagan
Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon. -- Ronald Reagan
Throughout our history Americans have put their faith in God and no one can doubt that we have been blessed for it. The earliest settlers of this land came came in search of religious freedom. Landing on a desolate shoreline, they established a spiritual foundation that has served us ever since. -- Ronald Reagan
I know that it is often difficult to stand up for one's beliefs when they are being harshly challenged. But as one who has seen many challenges over a long lifetime, I can assure you that personal faith and conviction are strengthened, not weakened, in adversity. -- Ronald Reagan
What does an actor know about politics? -- Ronald Reagan
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. -- Ronald Reagan
Families stand at the center of our society. And every family has a personal stake in promoting excellence in education. -- Ronald Reagan
Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her - that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now. -- Ronald Reagan
Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories. -- Ronald Reagan
Through you, we feel as giants, once again. -- Ronald Reagan
We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day. -- Ronald Reagan
Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people. -- Ronald Reagan
For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem. -- Ronald Reagan
The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. -- Ronald Reagan
Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy. -- Ronald Reagan
These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers. -- Ronald Reagan
Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose. -- Ronald Reagan
I notice that everbody who is Pro-Abortion already has been born. -- Ronald Reagan
There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect. -- Ronald Reagan
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known. -- Ronald Reagan
The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget ... in the final analysis ... that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger. -- Ronald Reagan
Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment? -- Ronald Reagan
What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies? -- Ronald Reagan
Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for. -- Ronald Reagan
Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem. -- Ronald Reagan
We must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side? -- Ronald Reagan
We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place. -- Ronald Reagan
Morality in the long run aligned with strategy. -- Ronald Reagan
The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives. -- Ronald Reagan
The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions. -- Ronald Reagan
A drastic reduction in the deficit ... will take place in the fiscal year '82. -- Ronald Reagan
Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism. -- Ronald Reagan
We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government added Federal interference to Federal financial aid and eroded educational quality in the process. -- Ronald Reagan
Most of my dreams came true. -- Ronald Reagan
They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission) -- Ronald Reagan
I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others. Referring to one of the oldest and loveliest groves of redwoods, showing insensitivity to their magnificence. -- Ronald Reagan
Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation. -- Ronald Reagan
There probably isn't any undertaking on earth short of assuring the national security that can't be handled more efficiently by the forces of private enterprise than by the federal government. -- Ronald Reagan
An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count. Speech, New York City, December 12, 1983 -- Ronald Reagan
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. -- Ronald Reagan
Met with Jim Watt. He's taking a lot of abuse from environmental extremists but he's absolutely right. People are ecology too and they cant forage for food and live in caves. -- Ronald Reagan
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace. -- Ronald Reagan
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. -- Ronald Reagan
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. -- Ronald Reagan
Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare. -- Ronald Reagan
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party. -- Ronald Reagan
The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America - our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal. -- Ronald Reagan
Well I've said it before and I'll say it again - America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead. -- Ronald Reagan
A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies. -- Ronald Reagan
I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties. -- Ronald Reagan
The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay. -- Ronald Reagan
Margaret Thatcher - this great lady has not only served her country well, she has served the free world well. -- Ronald Reagan
The United Sates has much to offer the third world war. -- Ronald Reagan
We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years. -- Ronald Reagan
Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt. -- Ronald Reagan
Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving? -- Ronald Reagan
If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn. -- Ronald Reagan
I'm a gooey, gushy gumdrop bullshitty drop bombs on Russia! ride a horse ... -- Ronald Reagan
Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California. -- Ronald Reagan
Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price. -- Ronald Reagan
History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator. -- Ronald Reagan
The work of volunteer groups throughout our country represents the very heart and soul of America. They have helped make this the most compassionate, generous, and humane society that ever existed on the face of this earth. -- Ronald Reagan
... Ending a conflict is not so simple, not just calling it off and coming home. Because the price for that kind of peace could be a thousand years of darkness for generation's Viet Nam borned. -- Ronald Reagan
We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were. -- Ronald Reagan
A faceless mass, waiting for handouts. -- Ronald Reagan
I don't know why anyone would want to study the expansion of the universe. -- Ronald Reagan
We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life
the unborn
without diminishing the value of all human life ... there is no cause more important. -- Ronald Reagan
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill. -- Ronald Reagan
We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today. -- Ronald Reagan
From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true. -- Ronald Reagan
Until now has there ever been a time in which so many of the prophecies are coming together? There have been times in the past when people thought the end of the world was coming, and so forth, but never anything like this. -- Ronald Reagan
The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become. -- Ronald Reagan
Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance. -- Ronald Reagan
Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor. -- Ronald Reagan
Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American. -- Ronald Reagan
We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years. -- Ronald Reagan
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us. -- Ronald Reagan
You and I have a rendevous with destiny. -- Ronald Reagan
Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks. -- Ronald Reagan
Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong. -- Ronald Reagan
On the streets of Moscow, looking into thousands of faces, I was reminded once again that it's not people who make war, but governments - and people deserve governments that fight for peace in the nuclear age. -- Ronald Reagan
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law. -- Ronald Reagan
I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty. -- Ronald Reagan
Trust the people
that is the crucial lesson of history. -- Ronald Reagan
The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual. -- Ronald Reagan
I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody. -- Ronald Reagan
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. -- Ronald Reagan
Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control. -- Ronald Reagan
People who think a tax boost will cure inflation are the same ones who believe another drink will cure a hangover. -- Ronald Reagan
America is too great for small dreams. -- Ronald Reagan
A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not. -- Ronald Reagan
Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible]. -- Ronald Reagan
It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union. -- Ronald Reagan
In our observances this Memorial Day, we honor the brave Americans who paid the highest price for their commitment to the ideals of peace, freedom, and justice. Our debt to them can be paid only by our own recommitment to preserving those same ideals. -- Ronald Reagan
When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master. -- Ronald Reagan
A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx. -- Ronald Reagan
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now. -- Ronald Reagan
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. -- Ronald Reagan
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. -- Ronald Reagan
Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past. -- Ronald Reagan
Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music. -- Ronald Reagan
Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive -- Ronald Reagan
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. -- Ronald Reagan
I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism. -- Ronald Reagan
A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow. -- Ronald Reagan
[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She said, "That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first." -- Ronald Reagan
Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten. -- Ronald Reagan
Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid. -- Ronald Reagan
Perhaps there is a simple answer
not an easy answer
but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right. -- Ronald Reagan
It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island. -- Ronald Reagan
There are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. -- Ronald Reagan
We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective ... -- Ronald Reagan
Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future. -- Ronald Reagan
The doors of this Library are open now and are all welcome. The judgment of history is left to you, the people. I have no fears of that, for we have done our best. And so I say, come and learn from it. -- Ronald Reagan
Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems. -- Ronald Reagan
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. And get a massage - you look really stressed -- Ronald Reagan
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? -- Ronald Reagan
Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem. -- Ronald Reagan
A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers. -- Ronald Reagan
Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population stabilization. -- Ronald Reagan
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. -- Ronald Reagan
The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing. -- Ronald Reagan
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out. -- Ronald Reagan
No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit. -- Ronald Reagan
Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit. -- Ronald Reagan
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. -- Ronald Reagan
Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy. -- Ronald Reagan
My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers. -- Ronald Reagan
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave. -- Ronald Reagan
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. -- Ronald Reagan
Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border. -- Ronald Reagan
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. -- Ronald Reagan
This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men. -- Ronald Reagan
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement. -- Ronald Reagan
Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions. -- Ronald Reagan
Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby". -- Ronald Reagan
I hope when you are my age, you'll be able to say - as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. Our lives were a statement, not an apology. -- Ronald Reagan
I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. -- Ronald Reagan
The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind. -- Ronald Reagan
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. -- Ronald Reagan
Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure. -- Ronald Reagan
I'm not smart enough to lie -- Ronald Reagan
Excellence does not begin in Washington. -- Ronald Reagan
Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutional ized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom
freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs protection. -- Ronald Reagan
Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people -- Ronald Reagan
We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn't end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds. -- Ronald Reagan
Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon. -- Ronald Reagan
As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have [it] if he wants protection
the protection of a weapon in his home. -- Ronald Reagan
If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now. -- Ronald Reagan
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy. -- Ronald Reagan
If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all. -- Ronald Reagan
I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education. -- Ronald Reagan
The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either. -- Ronald Reagan
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. -- Ronald Reagan
I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - 'Thou shalt not, unless you feel strongly to the contrary'. -- Ronald Reagan
T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. -- Ronald Reagan
If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage. -- Ronald Reagan
I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken. -- Ronald Reagan
If we listen to our hearts, believe in ourselves, and pull together, nothing can stand in our way. -- Ronald Reagan
Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America. -- Ronald Reagan
I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts. -- Ronald Reagan
Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it. -- Ronald Reagan
Governments don't produce economic growth people do. -- Ronald Reagan
I don't believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. -- Ronald Reagan
I picture is worth 1000 denials. -- Ronald Reagan
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. -- Ronald Reagan
We must have faith in the people of this country and faith in our principles. -- Ronald Reagan
America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace. -- Ronald Reagan
There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values. -- Ronald Reagan
Of all the millions of refugees we've seen in the modern world, their flight is always away from, not toward, the Communist world. -- Ronald Reagan
The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. -- Ronald Reagan
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith. -- Ronald Reagan
As smart as he was, though, I suspect even FDR didn't realize that once you created a bureaucracy, it took on a life of its own. It was almost impossible to close down a bureaucracy once it had been created. -- Ronald Reagan
We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others. -- Ronald Reagan
The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government. -- Ronald Reagan
In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story. -- Ronald Reagan
Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves. -- Ronald Reagan
By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it clear that they never had any intention of restoring one of the most elemental human rights the right to belong to a free trade union. -- Ronald Reagan
I won't hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him. -- Ronald Reagan
A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely. -- Ronald Reagan
Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. -- Ronald Reagan
Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world. -- Ronald Reagan
The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality. -- Ronald Reagan
I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers. -- Ronald Reagan
No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. -- Ronald Reagan
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. -- Ronald Reagan
For the people of Israel and America are historic partners in the global quest for human dignity and freedom. We will always remain at each other's side. -- Ronald Reagan
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. -- Ronald Reagan
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. -- Ronald Reagan