Ronald Reagan Quotes

“Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.”

“The man who puts into the marriage only halfof what he owns will get that out.”

“The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.”

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

“I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.”

“We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.”

“Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby".”

“If you're explaining, you're losing.”

“The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”

“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”

“Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.”

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

“Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.”

“In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.”

“There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of public virtue first nourished. Through love and instruction, discipline, guidance and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers the values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship.”

“Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, "What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?”

“Some may try to tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming.”

“Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.”

“As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future.”

“A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.”

“Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?"”

“Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.”

“Either you will control your government, or government will control you.”

“You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the jokes. Look at his record. He cut the taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we've ever known. I have taken heed of that because if he did that by doing nothing, maybe that's the answer.”

“If we listen to our hearts, believe in ourselves, and pull together, nothing can stand in our way.”