Words matter. These are the best Ronald Reagan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Facts are stubborn things.
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.
Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Let us ask ourselves, ‘What kind of people do we think we are?’ And let us answer, ‘Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.’
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
People do not make wars; governments do.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.
The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let’s not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
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.
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.
Man is not free unless government is limited.
We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.
Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.
You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.
Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
How can a president not be an actor?
You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
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.
Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other side of the line, the Soviet forces also face east to prevent their people from leaving.
We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
