"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
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Ronald Wilson Reagan Quotes


"A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?" ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. speech, Sept. 12, 1965. Quoted in Sacramento Bee (California, Mar. 12, 1966). Reagan later denied having made this statement.

"AS GOVERNMENT EXPANDS, LIBERTY CONTRACTS." ~Pres. RW Reagan, January 11, 1989

"But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret." ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. Address, June 19, 1986, to the graduating class of Glassboro High School, New Jersey.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." ~Ronald Reagan

"[Freedom] It is the right to dream — to follow your dream or stick to your conscience, even if you’re the only one in a sea of doubters." ~Ronald Reagan

"God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the winds and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God." ~Ronald Wilson Reagan

"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. speech, Dec. 11, 1972. "The Wit and Wisdom of Ronald Reagan," Speaking My Mind (1989).

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

"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." ~Ronald Wilson Reagan

"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." ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. Remark, June 23, 1983, to Polish Americans in Chicago. "The Wit and Wisdom of Ronald Reagan," Speaking My Mind (1989).

"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man." ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. Speech to Republican Party fund-raising dinner. quoted in Los Angeles Times (Oct. 20, 1978).

"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. Guardian (London, June 14, 1989).

"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." ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. Chronicle (San Francisco, September 9, 1967).

"Let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples of the earth—they are the focus of evil in the modern world." ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. Statement, March 8, 1983. quoted in "Focus of Evil," Reagan's Reign of Error, eds. Mark Green and Gail MacColl (1987).

"Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is." ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. From a joint television broadcast with Nancy Reagan, fall 1986, announcing a national crusade against the use of drugs. quoted in Lewis H. Lapham, Money and Class in America, ch. 5, sct. 1 (1988).

"MAN IS NOT FREE, UNLESS GOVERNMENT IS LIMITED." ~Pres. RW Reagan

"Mr. Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL" ~Pres. RW Reagan, Berlin Wall Speech, June 12, 1987 (Peter Robinson, Speechwriter)

"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!" ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. television address, Oct. 27, 1964. "A Time for Choosing," Speaking My Mind (1989)

"People keep looking to government for the answer and government is the problem." ~Ronald Reagan

“So, I tell you there are a great many God-fearing, dedicated, noble men and women in public life, present company included. And, yes, we need your help to keep us ever mindful of the ideas and the principles that brought us into the public arena in the first place. The basis of those ideals and principles is a commitment to freedom and personal liberty that, itself, is grounded in the much deeper realization that freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought and humbly accepted.” ~Pres. Ronald Reagan (1983)

"That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will." ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. Daily Telegraph (London, April 14, 1988).

"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." ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. Address, August 15, 1986, to the White House Conference on Small Business.

“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.” ~US President Ronald Reagan

"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts." ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. quoted in Observer (London, Feb. 27, 1983).

"...The judgment of history is left to you - the people. I have no fears of that, for we have done our best. And so I say, come and learn from it." ~Ronald Reagan, 4 November 1991

"The moral way of the government is the practical way of government." ~Pres. RW Reagan, January 11, 1989

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

"There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what new know is morally right." ~Pres. Ronald Reagan

"Trust, but verify." ~Ronald Reagan

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone." ~Ronald Reagan

"We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent." ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. speech, Feb. 6, 1985. "The Wit and Wisdom of Ronald Reagan," Speaking My Mind (1989).

"We kept faith with a promise as old as this land we love and as big as the sky, a brilliant vision of America as a shining city on a hill." ~Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1 December 1988

"We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule." ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. Quoted in Observer (London, February 5, 1983).

"WE THE PEOPLE TELL OUR GOVERNMENT WHAT TO DO!" ~Pres. RW Reagan, January 11, 1989

"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." ~Ronald Reagan

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans." ~Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. New York Times (Jan. 15, 1981).

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