Ronald Reagan Quotes

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

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.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.

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.

I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

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.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

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'.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals.

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.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

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.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

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.

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.

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

The Federal Reserve is answerable to no one.

The best social reform program in the world is a job.

Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.

I do not 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.

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.

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.

Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.

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.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - ‘We the people’.

Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.

The current tax code is a daily mugging.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

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.

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.

We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?