Quotes By Ronald Reagan

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.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

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

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.