Quotes By 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!

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.

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

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

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

Facts are stubborn things.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

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

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

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.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

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

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

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

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

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

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

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

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.