Ronald Reagan Quotes

In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.

If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.

I don't think any of us should forget that the security of America is our highest responsibility.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy

There are no degrees of honesty.

Trust the people -- that is the crucial lesson of history.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

I supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.

If it takes a bloodbath now let's get it over with.

And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.

An informed patriotism is what we want.

In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.

Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations.

The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.

Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.

Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

You and I have a rendevous with destiny.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And believe me, you are no Thomas Jefferson. (at 1992 Republican party convention, referring to Bill Clinton)

If you think you can - you can!

We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

Margaret Thatcher - this great lady has not only served her country well, she has served the free world well.

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.