Ronald Reagan quotes

“Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.”

— Ronald Reagan

“If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.”

— Ronald Reagan

“We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.”

— Ronald Reagan

“To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”

— Ronald Reagan

“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.”

— Ronald Reagan

“I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.”

— Ronald Reagan

“I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”

— Ronald Reagan

“A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?”

— Ronald Reagan

“One picture is worth 1,000 denials.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

“Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.”

— Ronald Reagan

“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.”

— Ronald Reagan

“My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.”

— Ronald Reagan

“No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.”

— Ronald Reagan

“If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

“It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?”

— Ronald Reagan

“You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.”

— Ronald Reagan

“I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.”

— Ronald Reagan

“I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.”

— Ronald Reagan

“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.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

“The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.”

— Ronald Reagan

“How can a president not be an actor?”

— Ronald Reagan

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

— Ronald Reagan

“While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.”

— Ronald Reagan