Quotes By 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

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

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

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

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

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

People do not make wars; governments do.

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.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

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.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.