Quotes from Ronald Reagan

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

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction

When youre up to your armpits in alligators, its hard to remember to drain the swamp.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth .

Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby".

I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.

If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country.

Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.

... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.

Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.

Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.

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

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.