Ronald Wilson Reagan Quotes (14 Quotes)

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization Come here to this gate Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

If you've seen one Redwood tree, you've seen them all.

The best view of government is in the rearview mirror as you're driving away from it.

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years. Ronald Reagan during the opening ceremonies for the library that will house his white house papers.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.

I couldn't help but say to Mr. Gorbachev, just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We'd find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.

Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond. Where others seek to throw up barriers, we seek to bring them down where others take counsel of their fears, we follow our hopes.

Communists, preach the supremacy of the state and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on Earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world...

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

... Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if Im in a cabinet meeting.

Let us ask ourselves 'What kind of people do we think we are'

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