Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
- Ronald Reagan

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

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.
- Ronald Reagan

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.
- Ronald Reagan

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.
- Ronald Reagan

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

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
- Ronald Reagan

Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
- Ronald Reagan

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.
- Ronald Reagan

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
- Ronald Reagan

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.
- Ronald Reagan

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

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
- Ronald Reagan

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
- Ronald Reagan

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
- Ronald Reagan

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
- Ronald Reagan

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
- Ronald Reagan

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
- Ronald Reagan

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
- Ronald Reagan

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

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.
- Ronald Reagan

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’.
- Ronald Reagan

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
- Ronald Reagan

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

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

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
- Ronald Reagan

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
- Ronald Reagan

A people free to choose will always choose peace.
- Ronald Reagan

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
- Ronald Reagan

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
- Ronald Reagan

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
- Ronald Reagan

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
- Ronald Reagan

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
- Ronald Reagan

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
- Ronald Reagan

How can a president not be an actor?
- Ronald Reagan

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.
- Ronald Reagan

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
- Ronald Reagan

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
- Ronald Reagan

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
- Ronald Reagan

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.
- Ronald Reagan

You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.
- Ronald Reagan

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
- Ronald Reagan

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
- Ronald Reagan