Ronald Reagan Quotes

Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.

How can a president not be an actor?

I'd like to harness their youthful energy with a strap.

No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

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.

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

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.'

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

Hayek is amongst the top 2-3 of the all the people who ever influenced me.

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

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.

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.

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.

Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used.

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.

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.

Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive.

When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'

The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.

We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.

When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal.

It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth.

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him.

I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.

I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.

The best way to get over a dog's death is to get another soon.

I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.

I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands.

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.

A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.

This administration is totally colorblind.

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.

The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile)

Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.

Cold, hungry, scared as hell inside, but too damn brave to admit it.