Famous Quotes

Quotes by Ronald Reagan

• A people free to choose will always choose peace.
• 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.
• All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
• All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
• Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
• Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
• Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
• 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.
• Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
• Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
• Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them.
• Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
• Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
• Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
• 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.
• History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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'.
• 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.
• If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
• If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
• Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
• Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
• It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
• It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
• It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
• It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
• It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
• 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.
• Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
• Man is not free unless government is limited.
• 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.
• No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!