RONALD REAGAN QUOTES
SOCIALISM IN HEAVEN AND HELL
Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.
COLD WAR STRATEGY
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.
LIBERALS ARE MISINFORMED
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
STRENGTH – NOT WARS
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U. S. was too strong.
THE LAW VERSUS CONGRESS
I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.
GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM
Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem.
THE TAXPAYER
The taxpayer: Someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
GOVERNMENT DEFINED
Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
AN ETERNAL PROGRAM
The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.
FIRST AND SECOND PROFESSIONS
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
TAX, REGULATE, SUBSIDIZE
'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.
AN ALTERNATIVE TO A POLITICIAN'S JOB
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.
MORAL COURAGE
No arsenal, nor no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
UNDER GOD OR GONE UNDER
If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under.
GREAT DREAMS
It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dream.
THE GREATEST LEADER
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.
SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP
To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership - not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.
UNLIMITED GROWTH
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
HAVE A GOAL AND WIN
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, the work hard toward that goal, we never lose. Somehow we win out.
LIFE 'S WORTH AND PURPOSE
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.
AMERICA'S FAMILY CONTRIBUTIONS
In raising and instructing our children, in providing personal and compassionate care for the elderly, in maintaining the spiritual strength of religious commitment among our people – in these and other ways, America's families make immeasurable contributions to America's well-being.
THE FAMILY - THE CORNERSTONE OF AMERICA'S SOCIETY
The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our freedoms.
FREEDOM MUST BE PRESERVED
Freedom is not something to be secured in any one moment of time. We must struggle to preserve it every day. And freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
GOVERNMENT IS BEHOLDEN TO THE PEOPLE
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.
I'M HERE TO HELP
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
IF IT MOVES, TAX IT
Government's view of the economy could be summed up to a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
MARINES MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Some people spend their entire life wondering if they've made a difference in this world. Marines don't have that problem.
WE DON'T START FIGHTS
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple promise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression – to preserve freedom and peace.
STAND FOR LIBERTY, FREEDOM, FAIRNESS
We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something – for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are the things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.
MAY AMERICANS BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES
What I'd really like is to go down in history as the President who made Americans believe in themselves again.
THE WEST WILL TRANSCEND COMMUNISM
The West will not contain communism; it will transcend communism. We will not bother to denounce it; we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.
MY DREAM FOR YOU
Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.
A RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.
LEARNING TO BE AN AMERICAN
Children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.
TRADING FREEDOM FOR FOOD
If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what's at stake. ... Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation.
THE AMERICAN DREAM
The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.
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