Quotes By Ronald Reagan

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

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

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.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.