Quotes by Ronald Reagan

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. Theyre just braver 5 minutes longer.

Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.

...where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a common sense limit. I mean, if youve looked at a hundred thousand acres or so of trees — you know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need to look at?

We do not deny any nations legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure.

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.

They preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the Earth. They are the focus of evil in the modern world.... So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride, the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

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 youre ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They dont understand that we also dream.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.

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

I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

Trees, how many of em do we need to look at?

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

Double-no triple-our troubles and wed still be better off than any other people on earth.

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

Money cant buy happiness but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.

Every new day begins with possibilities. Its up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

Gods miracles are to be found in nature itself the wind and waves the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically but behind them is the hand of God.

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

If we love our country we should also love our countrymen.