1. If we ever forget that we are one nation under God then we will be a nation gone under.

- Ronald Reagan

2. They broke the mold when they made Ronnie.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

5. A people free to choose will always choose peace.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

7. The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

- Ronald Reagan

8. I consider all proposals for government action with an open mind before voting ‘no.’

- Ronald Reagan

9. They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.

- Ronald Reagan

10. There are no easy answers but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

- Ronald Reagan

11. Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

- Ronald Reagan

12. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.

- Ronald Reagan

13. The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.

- Ronald Reagan

14. We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were.

- Ronald Reagan

15. Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears.

- Ronald Reagan

16. I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state… But both theories fail. Both deny those God-given liberties that are the inalienable right of each person on this planet, indeed, they deny the existence of God.

- Ronald Reagan

17. The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view.

- Ronald Reagan

18. The societies that have achieved the most spectacular, broad-based progress are neither the most tightly controlled, nor the biggest in size, nor the wealthiest in natural resources. No, what unites them all is their willingness to believe in the magic of the marketplace.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

20. There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.

- Ronald Reagan

21. An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.

- Ronald Reagan

22. Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

24. Being free and prosperous in a world at peace. That’s our ultimate goal.

- Ronald Reagan

25. We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

- Ronald Reagan

26. We must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side?

- Ronald Reagan

27. I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited.

- Ronald Reagan

28. When you see all of the smoke billowing up from the Democrats, ladies and gentlemen, I’d follow the advice of their nominee: Don’t Inhale.

- Ronald Reagan

29. If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

- Ronald Reagan

30. Let us resolve that we will stop spreading dependency and start spreading opportunity; that we will stop spreading bondage and start spreading freedom.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

32. One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project.

- Ronald Reagan

33. You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it to the wind.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

35. The march of freedom and democracy . . . will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

- Ronald Reagan

36. I used to say that politics was the second-oldest profession. I have come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first.

- Ronald Reagan

37. Freedom It is the right to dream — to follow your dream or stick to your conscience, even if you’re the only one in a sea of doubters.

- Ronald Reagan

38. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire post-war period, contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

40. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

42. Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

- Ronald Reagan

43. Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

- Ronald Reagan

44. Most often it’s not how handsomely or eloquently you say something, but the fact that your words mean something.

- Ronald Reagan

45. 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

46. Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

48. Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

- Ronald Reagan

49. The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally, not a 20 percent traitor.

- Ronald Reagan

50. The future doesn’t belong to the faint-hearted; it belongs to the brave.

- Ronald Reagan

51. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

- Ronald Reagan

52. We cannot stop at the foothills when Everest lies ahead.

- Ronald Reagan

53. Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

- Ronald Reagan

54. I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.

- Ronald Reagan

55. Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and Hell where they already have it.

- Ronald Reagan

56. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

- Ronald Reagan

57. Common sense told us that when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. So we cut the people’s tax rates, and the people produced more than ever before.

- Ronald Reagan

58. We the people tell the government what to do. It doesn’t tell us.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

60. A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

63. Draft registration destroys the very values that our society is committed to defending.

- Ronald Reagan

64. America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

- Ronald Reagan

65. The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

- Ronald Reagan

66. The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

- Ronald Reagan

67. Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

- Ronald Reagan

68. How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

70. 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. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

72. Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

- Ronald Reagan

73. The West will not contain Communism; it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we’ll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.

- Ronald Reagan

74. You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.

- Ronald Reagan

75. The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

77. I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.

- Ronald Reagan

78. The dreams of people may differ, but everybody wants their dreams to come true. And America, above all places, gives us the freedom to do that.

- Ronald Reagan

79. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

- Ronald Reagan

80. I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.

- Ronald Reagan

81. We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

- Ronald Reagan

82. Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put on this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

- Ronald Reagan

83. Our Constitution is to be celebrated not for being old, but for being young.

- Ronald Reagan

84. The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism: money.

- Ronald Reagan

85. There are some who’ve forgotten why we have a military. It’s not to promote war, it’s to be prepared for peace.

- Ronald Reagan

86. Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.

- Ronald Reagan

87. Each day is different, and you get up, put one foot in front of the other, and go, and love; just love.

- Ronald Reagan

88. Never let the things you can’t do stop you from doing what you can.

- Ronald Reagan

89. One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

- Ronald Reagan

90. The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America…our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal.

- Ronald Reagan

91. It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.

- Ronald Reagan

92. The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization.

- Ronald Reagan

93. 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!

- Ronald Reagan

94. 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

95. Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

- Ronald Reagan

96. Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

- Ronald Reagan

97. I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

- Ronald Reagan

98. If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

- Ronald Reagan

99. I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity, and guts.

- Ronald Reagan

100. Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

- Ronald Reagan

101. Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

- Ronald Reagan

102. I did turn 75 today – but remember, that’s only 24 Celsius.

- Ronald Reagan

103. You know, by the time you reach my age, you’ve made plenty of mistakes if you’ve lived your life properly.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

106. I believe now, as I alway have, that America’s strength is in ‘We the People.’

- Ronald Reagan

107. It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism.

- Ronald Reagan

108. We Americans don’t want war, and we don’t start fights.

- Ronald Reagan

109. It is time to realize we are too great a nation for small dreams. We’re not — as some would have us believe — doomed to an inevitable fate.

- Ronald Reagan

110. Somebody once said that life begins when you begin to serve. Maybe if there’s a feeling that you can be of service then you feel you have to do it.

- Ronald Reagan