Ronald Reagan quotes

“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

— Ronald Reagan

“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.”

— Ronald Reagan

“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.”

— Ronald Reagan

“We are never defeated unless we give up on God.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

“A people free to choose will always choose peace.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

“The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.”

— Ronald Reagan

“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

“We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.”

— Ronald Reagan

“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.”

— Ronald Reagan

“But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.”

— Ronald Reagan

“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.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.”

— Ronald Reagan

“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.”

— Ronald Reagan

“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.”

— Ronald Reagan

“We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

“One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Facts are stubborn things.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.”

— Ronald Reagan