R.D. Ronald Quotes

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.

Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

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.

The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.

Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.

Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

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

You and I have a rendevous with destiny.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And believe me, you are no Thomas Jefferson. (at 1992 Republican party convention, referring to Bill Clinton)

If you think you can - you can!

We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

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

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music.

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.

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

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess-we're not connected to the press room yet, are we?

I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.

We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals.

I am not a scientist.

In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.

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

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

Atheism is easy in fair weather.

I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.

I was reminded of the Sydney Harris cartoon that said 'adding two numbers that have not been added before does not constitute a mathematical breakthrough'.