Quotes by Ronald Reagan

“How do you tell a communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and dont interfere as long as the policy youve decided upon is being carried out.”

“My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing will begin in five minutes. - During radio microphone test”

“People dont start wars, governments do.”

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

“I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast.”

“Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but cant remember what they are.”

“Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.”

“Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?”

“Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, youd decide you wouldnt want it.”

“Ones condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels ones being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.”

“The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.”

“My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.”

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

“Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.”

“The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.”

“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”

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

“A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets tough.”

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