Ronald Reagan Quotes

For the people of Israel and America are historic partners in the global quest for human dignity and freedom. We will always remain at each other's side.

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)

Our problems are both acute and chronic, yet all we hear from those in positions of leadership are the same tired proposals for more government tinkering, more meddling and more control---all of which led us to this state in the first place... We must have the clarity of vision to see the difference between what is essential and what is merely desirable, and then the courage to bring our government back under control and make it acceptable to the people.

Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

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

When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - ‘We the people’.

On Father's Day, we pay tribute to all in our society who have taken on the responsibilities and joys of fatherhood. Whether our fathers are near at hand or a continent away, with their families or watching from the light of eternity, we take this day to remember them, to say our thanks for the years they have given us, and to ask that they receive God's blessings.

The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.

Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom. The second vision believes that religion is opium for the masses. It believes that eternal principles like truth, liberty, and democracy have no meaning beyond the whim of the state. And [Vladimir] Lenin spoke for them.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government tyranny. . . But now we're told our children have no right to pray in school. Nonsense. The pendulum has swung too far toward intolerance against genuine religious freedom. It is time to redress the balance.

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

Perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.

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

Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

I looked out the window and saw this white light.It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said,Have you ever seen anything like that? He was shocked and he said, "Nope." And I said to him: "Let's follow it!" We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light.We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

We're Americans, and we have a rendezvous with destiny . . . No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than Americans.

We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with which all of them ennobled their nation as they became champions of a noble cause.

We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.

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

I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.

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

We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that granted to it by the people It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.

I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow men.

Honey, I forgot to duck

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

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

Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.

The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.

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

We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they can get the foreign workers more cheaply. It has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled American workers or the costs of training them.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.

We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.