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Quotes by Ronald Reagan

A people free to choose will always choose peace.
– Ronald Reagan
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
– 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
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
– Ronald Reagan
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
– Ronald Reagan
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
– Ronald Reagan
Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.
– Ronald Reagan
Facts are stubborn things.
– Ronald Reagan
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
– Ronald Reagan
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
– Ronald Reagan
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
– Ronald Reagan
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
– Ronald Reagan
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
– Ronald Reagan
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
– Ronald Reagan
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
– Ronald Reagan
How can a president not be an actor?
– 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
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
– Ronald Reagan
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
– Ronald Reagan
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
– Ronald Reagan
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
– Ronald Reagan
I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
– Ronald Reagan
I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
– Ronald Reagan
I'm not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
– Ronald Reagan
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
– Ronald Reagan
I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
– 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
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
– Ronald Reagan
If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
– Ronald Reagan
In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Israel 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 tryanny and unrest.
– Ronald Reagan
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
– 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.
– Ronald Reagan
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
– Ronald Reagan
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
– Ronald Reagan
Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?
– Ronald Reagan
Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
– Ronald Reagan
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
– Ronald Reagan
Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
– 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 government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
– Ronald Reagan
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
– Ronald Reagan
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
– Ronald Reagan
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
– 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
Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
– Ronald Reagan
People do not make wars; governments do.
– Ronald Reagan
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
– 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
Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
– Ronald Reagan
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
– Ronald Reagan
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
– 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
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
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
– 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
The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
– Ronald Reagan
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
– Ronald Reagan
The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.
– 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
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
– Ronald Reagan
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
– Ronald Reagan
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
– Ronald Reagan
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
– Ronald Reagan
Trust, but verify.
– Ronald Reagan
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
– Ronald Reagan
We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
– Ronald Reagan
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
– Ronald Reagan
We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!
– 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
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
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
– Ronald Reagan
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
– 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
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
– Ronald Reagan
Well, I learned a lot... I went down to Latin America to find out from them and (learn) their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries.
– Ronald Reagan
What makes him think a middle aged actor [Clint Eastwood], who's played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?
– 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
Whatever time I've got left now belongs to the Big Fella Upstairs.
– Ronald Reagan
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
– Ronald Reagan
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
– Ronald Reagan
You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
– Ronald Reagan
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
– Ronald Reagan
Facts are stupid things.
– Ronald Reagan
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
– Ronald Reagan
People don't start wars, governments do.
– 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
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
– Ronald Reagan
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
– Ronald Reagan
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
– Ronald Reagan
Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
– Ronald Reagan
We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
– Ronald Reagan
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
– Ronald Reagan
We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
– 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
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
– Ronald Reagan
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
– Ronald Reagan
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
– Ronald Reagan
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
– Ronald Reagan
One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
– Ronald Reagan
One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
– Ronald Reagan