Quotes from Ronald Reagan

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.

For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

People don't start wars, governments do.

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.