If we ever forget that we're one nation
under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been
born.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the
arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage
of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's
world do not have.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored
under a desk.
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.
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after
I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Don't be afraid to see what you see.
Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than
any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours
was, in truth, a noble cause.
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost
all the economic growth in the United States.
Facts are stubborn things.
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.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under
God is acknowledged.
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four
more years.
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite
at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their
lives.
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.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price
of aggression is cheap.
How can a president not be an actor?
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx
and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who
understands Marx and Lenin.
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care
of itself.
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who
gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the
cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering
these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
I couldn't help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his
task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly
there was a threat to this world from another planet. We'd find
out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on
this earth together.
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at
gunpoint if necessary.
I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would
have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
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.
I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the
afternoon.
I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used,
because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that
you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
I'm not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care
of itself.
I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything
that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in
the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
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'.
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was
putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still
be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will
be a nation gone under.
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power
of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Israel was founded, pundits
claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions
that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of
tryanny and unrest.
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed
robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the
walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.
I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this
country because food isn't available.
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.
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take
the chance?
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
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.
No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable
as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government
programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government
bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this
earth!
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial
gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S.
was too strong.
Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for
conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action
is required to preserve our national security, we will act.
Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle
conflict by peaceful means.
People do not make wars; governments do.
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have
come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening,
coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many
rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is
basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when
you lose yours.
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats
believe every day is April 15.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
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.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would
steal them away.
The 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.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from
the government and I'm here to help.
The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth
is a government program.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem
is that government spends too much.
The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government
but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think
I want the job.
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant:
It's just that they know so much that isn't so.
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world
will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - a
trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish
and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must
have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits
of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They
are wrong.
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.
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.
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.
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive.
They counted wrong.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along
with a better mouse.
We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside
a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got
that way by taking advantage of the thin one!
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived
closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society
is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the
American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare,
not by how many are added.
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always
be prepared, so we will always be free.
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl
Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the
need for its own existence.
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.
Whatever time I've got left now belongs to the Big Fella Upstairs.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I
live for the future.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems
men face.
Quotes by Ronald Reagan
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