Quotes from Ronald Reagan

Trust the people -- that is the crucial lesson of history.

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.

But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.

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

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totalitarianism…There's no moral equivalency between propaganda and the truth.

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it.

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future.

Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.

Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.