Quotes from Ronald Reagan

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution

A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size

Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets

The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

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 for Christmas.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing will begin in five minutes. - During radio microphone test.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

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.

We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself

I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast.