Quotes from Ronald Reagan

An informed patriotism is what we want.

We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

A stronger defense is an investment in peace.

America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.

We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom.

Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

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'.

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

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

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

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.