Quotes from Ronald Reagan

In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

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.

Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem.

I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Freedom . . . 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.

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

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

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

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

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

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

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'.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

One picture is worth 1 000 denials.

The government

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

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.