Ronald Reagan Quotes

“Through you, we feel as giants, once again.”

“Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.”

“[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.”

“A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?”

“We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure.”

“But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.”

“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.”

“I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)”

“Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.”

“Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again.”

“There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.”

“I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.”

“Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.”

“Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.”

“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.”

“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”

“Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.”

“'Trust-me' government asks that we concentrate our hopes and dreams on one man, that we trust him to do what's best for us. My view of government places trust not in one person or one party, but in those values that transcend persons and parties.”

“Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them nevertheless. This constitutional republic, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, prospered and grew strong. To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. That is our purpose in the world - nothing more and nothing less.”

“A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.”

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.”

“I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code and it reads: 'For purposes of paragraph 3, an organization described in paragraph 2 shall be deemed to include an organization described in section 501C-4, 5, or 6, which would be described in paragraph 2 if it were an organization described in section 501C-3.' And that's just one sentence out of those fifty-seven feet of books.”

“Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.”

“If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.”

“Where there's liberty, art succeeds.”