Quotes from Ronald Reagan

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

America is too great for small dreams.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

Life is one grand sweet song so start the music

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.