Ronald Reagan Quotes (308 Quotes)


    Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock

    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 . . . 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.

    I know it's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

    Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

    Four years ago we said we would invigorate our economy by giving people greater freedom and incentives to take risks and letting them keep more of what they earned. We did what we promised, and a great industrial giant is reborn.


    the Berlin Wall came down, the Evil Empire collapsed, and the cause of liberty prevailed in the world.

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

    I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

    The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work. What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime when he knows Uncle Sam is going to take 60 percent or more of his extra pay

    I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.

    In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

    Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

    A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

    The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

    We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

    This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks. (January 26, 1983)

    The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideasa trial of spiritual resolve the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.

    It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

    The truth, of course, is that Kerry, relying on the notion that voters hold a negative view of the Bush-Cheney status quo, fills the traditional role of the gloom and doom ... better off today than they were four years ago.

    If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what's at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation.

    To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

    Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

    My fellow Americans, there's an old saying that nothing spreads so quickly as a rumor, so I thought it was time to speak with you directly, to tell you first hand about our dealings with Iran.

    The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted it belongs to the brave

    Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

    Common sense told us that when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. So we cut the people's tax rates, and the people produced more than ever before.

    No one who lived through the Great Depression can ever look upon an unemployed person with anything but compassion. To me, there is no greater tragedy than a breadwinner willing to work, with a job skill but unable to find a market for that job skill. Back in those dark depression days I saw my father on a Christmas eve open what he thought was a Christmas greeting from his boss. Instead, it was the blue slip telling him he no longer had a job. The memory of him sitting there holding that slip of paper and then saying in a half whisper, 'That's quite a Christmas present,' it will stay with me as long as I live.

    Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

    We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

    If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

    Alexander's widow came to Galesburg for the movie showing at the Orpheum. I think it opened at several theatres around the country at the same time.

    Why should we be frightened 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 the living Americans, those Americans living in this land today.

    When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause

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

    I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.

    I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something no one bats a thousand.

    I hope you're all Republicans. (To surgeons as he entered the operating room, March 30, 1981.)

    I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

    If I had as much make-up on as he did, I'd have looked younger, too.

    Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

    Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in

    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.

    We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

    A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

    You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

    Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

    We've done our part. And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan revolution, the men and women across America who for 8 years did the work that brought America back. My friends We did it. We weren't just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger, we made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all. (Farewell Address to the Nation, January 20th, 1989)

    I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by a greater power from outer space from another planet -- wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all

    The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America...our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal.

    Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.


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