Ronald Reagan Quotes

By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.

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

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

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.

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

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

I won't hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

Isn't it interesting that all of those people who support the choice of abortion have already been born?

The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.

I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.

If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

If the family goes, so goes our civilization.

Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.

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!

There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage.

Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front. And we thank God for them.

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Trees cause pollution.

Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America.

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live.