Quotes from Ronald Reagan

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

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.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.

Remember that every government service, every offer of government - financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom... In the days to come, whenever a voice is raised telling you to let the government do it, analyze very carefully to see whether the suggested service is worth the personal freedom which you must forgo in return for such service.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

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

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

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

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

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.

If you're explaining, you're losing.

If you think you can - you can!

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Please tell me you're Republicans.

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

I didn't leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.

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

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

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.