Quotes from Ronald Reagan

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.

There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.

I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front. And we thank God for them.

I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'

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

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.