Quotes from Ronald Reagan

It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.

State problems should involve state solutions.

We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.

It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth.

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: 'This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.' Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.

If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

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

The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program

Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.

You get a little stir crazy during the week.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.