Ronald Reagan quotes page 1

1911-2004, 40th President of the United States

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears
a striking resemblance to the first.
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

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a
cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan

As government expands, liberty contracts.
Ronald Reagan

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and
there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald Reagan

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
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A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm
here to help.
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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.
Ronald Reagan

America is too great for small dreams.
Ronald Reagan

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.
Ronald Reagan

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its
limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan

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

I've noticed everyone who is for abortion has already been born.
Ronald Reagan

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.
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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.
Ronald Reagan

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the
continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows to recognize
shortcomings and seek solutions.
Ronald Reagan

Since I came to the White House, I've gotten two hearing aids, had a colon operation, a
prostate operation, skin cancer, and I've been shot... damn thing is, I've never felt better.
Ronald Reagan

In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the
members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize
this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if
we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.
Ronald Reagan

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

The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's
democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.
Ronald Reagan

Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious
scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers
of the Constitution intended to create such a right.
Ronald Reagan

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

Liberals fought poverty and poverty won.
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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.
Ronald Reagan

If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises."
Ronald Reagan

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