Quotes from Ronald Reagan

If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'

If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage.

The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

You and I have a rendevous with destiny.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Stick to your dreams and determine that you're going to make them come true.

America is to great to dream small dreams.

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

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.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

If you think you can - you can!

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

We must have faith in the people of this country and faith in our principles.

If the family goes, so goes our civilization.