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Top 10 Ronald Reagan Quotes

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
  4. If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
  5. If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.
  6. I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.
  7. Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
  8. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
  9. Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
  10. There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Ronald Reagan Short Quotes

  • A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
  • Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
  • Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
  • When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
  • Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
  • The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
  • If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
  • Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.
  • A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.
  • All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under god is acknowledged. - Ronald Reagan
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under god is acknowledged.

Ronald Reagan Quotes About Socialism

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program. — Ronald Reagan

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

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it. — Ronald Reagan

The government's first duty is to protect the people. - Ronald Reagan
The government's first duty is to protect the people.

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine....If you don't do this, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was like in American when men were free. — Ronald Reagan

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop. — Ronald Reagan

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. — Ronald Reagan

We should measure welfare's success, by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. - Ronald Reagan
We should measure welfare's success, by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

I believe the best social program is a job. — Ronald Reagan

Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure. — Ronald Reagan

The best social reform program in the world is a job. — Ronald Reagan

The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work. — Ronald Reagan

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motivational quote by Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Quotes About Freedom

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again. — Ronald Reagan

We're Americans, and we have a rendezvous with destiny . . . No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than Americans. — Ronald Reagan

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. — Ronald Reagan

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

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. — Ronald Reagan

We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were. — Ronald Reagan

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country. — Ronald Reagan

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people. — Ronald Reagan

Freedom-loving people around the world must say . . . I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism. — Ronald Reagan

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become. — Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Quotes About Government

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp. — Ronald Reagan

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

Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite. — Ronald Reagan

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

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

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts. — Ronald Reagan

Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother. — Ronald Reagan

When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident. — Ronald Reagan

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it. — Ronald Reagan

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

Ronald Reagan Quotes About Leadership

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. — Ronald Reagan

It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag. — Ronald Reagan

The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy. — Ronald Reagan

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough. — Ronald Reagan

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way — Ronald Reagan

Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies — especially in this hemisphere. None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong. — Ronald Reagan

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere. — Ronald Reagan

Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan

We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals. — Ronald Reagan

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil. — Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Quotes About Democracy

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. — Ronald Reagan

Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great. — Ronald Reagan

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. — Ronald Reagan

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. — Ronald Reagan

We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression. — Ronald Reagan

In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Isreal 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 tyranny and unrest. — Ronald Reagan

Since the foundation of the State of Israel, the United States has stood by her and helped her to pursue security, peace, and economic growth. Our friendship is based on historic moral and strategic ties, as well as our shared dedication to democracy. — Ronald Reagan

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating. — Ronald Reagan

This democracy of ours, which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us not tear it asunder, for no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when he will find its protective warmth again. — Ronald Reagan

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive — Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Quotes About Veterans

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth. — Ronald Reagan

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace. — Ronald Reagan

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world. — Ronald Reagan

Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything. — Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Quotes About Character

Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for. — Ronald Reagan

There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, we have it in our power to begin the world over again. — Ronald Reagan

I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings. — Ronald Reagan

Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level. — Ronald Reagan

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. — Ronald Reagan

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. — Ronald Reagan

A nation's greatness is measured not just by its gross national product or military power, but by the strength of its devotion to the principles and values that bind its people and define their character. — Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Quotes About Education

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having. — Ronald Reagan

A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow. — Ronald Reagan

We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government added Federal interference to Federal financial aid and eroded educational quality in the process. — Ronald Reagan

We must always meet our obligation to those who fall behind without our assistance. But let's remember, without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence - in education or any other walk of life. — Ronald Reagan

Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility. — Ronald Reagan

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family. — Ronald Reagan

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years. — Ronald Reagan

I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education. — Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Quotes About Strong

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong. — Ronald Reagan

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources. — Ronald Reagan

Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit. — Ronald Reagan

Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them. — Ronald Reagan

Of the many messages found in the Hanukah story, the one that has always inspired me most is this: with a strong faith in the Almighty, nothing is impossible; and without the help of our Creator, we labor in vain. — Ronald Reagan

Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature. — Ronald Reagan

A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies. — Ronald Reagan

An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count. — Ronald Reagan

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster. — Ronald Reagan

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision. — Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Quotes About People

Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible. — Ronald Reagan

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. — Ronald Reagan

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem. — Ronald Reagan

I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets. — Ronald Reagan

We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down. — Ronald Reagan

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. — Ronald Reagan

America was founded by people who believe that God is their Rock of safety. — Ronald Reagan

We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots. — Ronald Reagan

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere. — Ronald Reagan

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

Ronald Reagan Quotes About World

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. — Ronald Reagan

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world. — Ronald Reagan

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. — Ronald Reagan

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer. — Ronald Reagan

Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which We the People tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the People are free. — Ronald Reagan

I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask. — Ronald Reagan

Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. — Ronald Reagan

I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other. — Ronald Reagan

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

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. — Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Quotes About Free

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem. — Ronald Reagan

There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams. — Ronald Reagan

Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. — Ronald Reagan

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war. — Ronald Reagan

By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it clear that they never had any intention of restoring one of the most elemental human rights the right to belong to a free trade union. — Ronald Reagan

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

Man is not free unless government is limited. — Ronald Reagan

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free. — Ronald Reagan

We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free. — Ronald Reagan

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly. — Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Quotes About Life

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. — Ronald Reagan

Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child. — Ronald Reagan

Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life. — Ronald Reagan

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. — Ronald Reagan

Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — Ronald Reagan

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

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. — Ronald Reagan

I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. . .. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. — Ronald Reagan

We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? — Ronald Reagan

There is purpose and worth to each and every life. — Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Famous Quotes And Sayings

Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time. — Ronald Reagan

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. — Ronald Reagan

To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny. — Ronald Reagan

We must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side? — Ronald Reagan

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. — Ronald Reagan

We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever. — Ronald Reagan

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor. — Ronald Reagan

I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home. — Ronald Reagan

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook. — Ronald Reagan

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

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. — Ronald Reagan

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. — Ronald Reagan

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

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! — Ronald Reagan

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

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

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

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

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

In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world. — Ronald Reagan

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression. — Ronald Reagan

Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. — Ronald Reagan

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

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! — Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. — Ronald Reagan

The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America - our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal. — Ronald Reagan

Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories. — Ronald Reagan

Are you better off today than you were four years ago? — Ronald Reagan

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won — Ronald Reagan

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been. — Ronald Reagan

If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O! — Ronald Reagan

Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? — Ronald Reagan

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. — Ronald Reagan

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won. — Ronald Reagan

All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it's a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay....He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do. — Ronald Reagan

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor. — Ronald Reagan

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. — Ronald Reagan

But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive. — Ronald Reagan

Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence. — Ronald Reagan

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

Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face. — Ronald Reagan

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. — Ronald Reagan

A truly successful army is one that, because of its strength and ability and dedication, will not be called upon to fight, for no one will dare to provoke it. — Ronald Reagan

We are never defeated unless we give up on God. — Ronald Reagan

Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories. — Ronald Reagan

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. — Ronald Reagan

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

An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either. — Ronald Reagan

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. — Ronald Reagan

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control. — Ronald Reagan

Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible. — Ronald Reagan

Life Lessons by Ronald Reagan

  1. Ronald Reagan taught us to stay true to our beliefs, no matter how difficult the challenge. He demonstrated the importance of having a strong moral compass and standing up for what we believe in.
  2. He also showed us the power of optimism and the importance of having a positive attitude, no matter how tough the situation.
  3. Finally, Ronald Reagan showed us that it is possible to accomplish great things through hard work, dedication, and resilience.
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