Quotes By Ronald Reagan

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

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.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

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'.

How can a president not be an actor?

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.

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.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.