Quotes By Ronald Reagan

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

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.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

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

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.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

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.

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.

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.

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

A people free to choose will always choose peace.