Ronald Reagan Quotes

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

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

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.

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work.

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.

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.

If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

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.

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.

The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

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.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?

People do not make wars; governments do.

I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

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.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought, and humbly accepted.

America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

We must have faith in the people of this country and faith in our principles.

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.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

A nation without borders is no nation at all.

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.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here.

There are only two things that the liberals don't understand: the things that change and the things that don't.

For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.

We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.