Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Ronald ReaganThe Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray
Ronald ReaganFree enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.
Ronald ReaganI heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties.
Ronald ReaganRegimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.
Ronald Reagan