Quotes from Ronald Reagan

It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

If not us, who? And if not now, when?

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

People do not make wars; governments do.

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

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

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom.