Ronald Reagan Quotes

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess-we're not connected to the press room yet, are we?

I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.

We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals.

I am not a scientist.

In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn.

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative.

Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy.

My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.

Together, we'll build a far better future for America -- a future of growth, opportunity, and security, anchored by the values of a people who are confident, compassionate, and whose heart is good.

Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."

You know, if Nancy Davis hadn't come along when she did, I would have lost my soul.

We will remain steady. We will pursue every avenue in the search for peace and stability.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

. . . And always remember that you are Americans, and it is your birthright to dream great dreams in this sweet and blessed land, truly the greatest, freest, strongest nation on Earth.

Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.

Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they're ready to operate on is your wallet.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.

You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between left or right. Well, I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down.

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.

Double - no, triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America.