Quotes from Ronald Reagan

People don't start wars, governments do.

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure.

I spoke to ears that refused to hear.

Getting shot hurts. Still my fear was growing because no matter how hard I tried to breath it seemed I was getting less & less air. I focused on that tiled ceiling and prayed. But I realized I couldn't ask for Gods help while at the same time I felt hatred for the mixed up young man who had shot me. Isn't that the meaning of the lost sheep? We are all Gods children & therefore equally beloved by him. I began to pray for his soul and that he would find his way back to the fold.

governments don't produce economic growth people do.

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

Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Perhaps you and I have lived with this miracle too long to be properly appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.

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

If politics were a musical, it would be Promises, Promises.

How can a president not be an actor?

A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism.

We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief. Nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. -- Ronald Reagan I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home." -- Ronald Reagan

We are a Nation Under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone UNDER.

In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

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

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life.

For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.

There are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

I know this issue is very controversial. But unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary. We should rise above bitterness and reproach, and if Americans could come together in a spirit of understanding and helping, then we could find positive solutions to the tragedy of abortion.