Ronald Reagan Quotes

This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.

Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.

Most of my dreams came true.

Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

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.

The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.

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.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".

Doverey, no proverey - Trust but verify.

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.

I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it.

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

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.

You get to know people as individuals. The dreams of people may differ, but everybody wants their dreams to come true. And America, above all places, gives us the freedom to do that

The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program

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.

Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.

It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.

We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.

From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.

I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.

Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.

The Bible can touch our hearts, order our minds, refresh our souls.

Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.

If we listen to our hearts, believe in ourselves, and pull together, nothing can stand in our way.

For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.

The future belongs to the free.

What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal.

There are worse things to be called than a dreamer.

People don't start wars, governments do.

I'm a sucker for hero worship.

Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.

Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?"

We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows.

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.

One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.

It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.

I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.

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.

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.