Quotes By Ronald Reagan

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

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

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

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

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.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

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.

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.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.