Ronald Reagan Quotes
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms.
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.
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.
I don't believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.
Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totalitarianism…There's no moral equivalency between propaganda and the truth.
Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.
I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.
They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy." on Challenger disaster
Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing.
For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.
There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.
Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Double-no triple-our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself the wind and waves the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically but behind them is the hand of God.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
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.
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
