Quotes By Ronald Reagan

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.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

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.

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.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

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

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

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.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

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'.

How can a president not be an actor?

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.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

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.

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.

Trust, but verify.