Ronald Reagan quotes

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

For many years now, you and I have been shushed like children and told there are no simple
answers to the complex problems which are beyond our comprehension. Well, the truth is,
there are simple answers, they just are not easy ones.
Ronald Reagan

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20
percent traitor.
Ronald Reagan

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Ronald Reagan

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
Ronald Reagan

The smoke from burning marijuana contains many more cancer-causing substances than
tobacco. And if that isn’t enough it leads to bronchitis and emphysema. If adults want to
take such chances that is their business. But surely the communications media... should let
four million youngsters know what they are risking.
Ronald Reagan

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
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.
Ronald Reagan

Recognizing the equality of all men and women, we are willing and able to lift the weak,
cradle those who hurt, and nurture the bonds that tie us together as one nation under God.
Ronald Reagan

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.
Ronald Reagan

Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but
there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how
a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.
Ronald Reagan

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.
Ronald Reagan

Trees cause more pollution than automobiles.
Ronald Reagan

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
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

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
Ronald Reagan

Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did
he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others, white and black, preached hatred, he
taught the principles of love and nonviolence.
Ronald Reagan

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.
Ronald Reagan

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur,
seeing possibilities where others see only problems.
Ronald Reagan

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And
recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
Ronald Reagan

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.
Ronald Reagan

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. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let
that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors.
Ronald Reagan

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much
that isn't so.
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

It is time for us to realize that we're too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.
Ronald Reagan

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