Ronald Reagan Quotes

If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price.

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

America's foreign policy supports freedom, democracy, and human dignity for all mankind, and we make no apologies for it. The opportunity society that we want for ourselves we also want for others, not because we're imposing our system on others but because those opportunities belong to all people as God-given birthrights and because by promoting democracy and economic opportunity we make peace more secure.

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

I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'

The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an idea that became a country - was a nation governed by professional politicians who had an interest in getting re-elected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then eagerly looking forward to getting back to the farm.

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

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

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.

Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal.

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

The best way to get over a dog's death is to get another soon.

Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.

I also believe this blessed land was set apart in a very special way, a country created by men and women who came here not in search of gold, but in search of God. They would be free people, living under the law with faith in their Maker and their future. Sometimes, it seems we've strayed from that noble beginning, from our conviction that standards of right and wrong do exist and must be lived up to.

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

[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight, we have.

The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.

The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not necessarily the biggest in size, or the wealthiest in natural resources. No, what unites them all is their willingness to believe in the magic of the marketplace.

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.

f you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals - if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

Well, the task I've set forth will long outlive our own generation. But together, we too have come through the worst. Let us now begin a major effort to secure the best- a crusade for freedom that will engage the faith and fortitude of the next generation. For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

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

The current tax code is a daily mugging.

Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage.

A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.

Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.

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

I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

I'm convinced, more than ever, that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man.

The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.

Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level.

We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.

For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.

I like photographers-you don't ask questions.

There is nothing wrong with America that Americans can't fix.

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

Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories.

Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always "against" things-we're never "for" anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

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

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.

Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit.