Ronald Reagan quotes:

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

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.

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

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.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

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

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.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

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

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

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.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

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

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

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!

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.

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

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

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.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

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

People do not make wars; governments do.

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

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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

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

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

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

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

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

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

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

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.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

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

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

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

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

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time."

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

Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide.

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

I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems. And I'm old enough to remember when quotas existed in the United States for the purpose of discrimination, and I don't want to see that happen again.

We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide...t here is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.

I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.

The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.

I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.

Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it.

I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. . .. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

America is too great for small dreams.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.

For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.

I supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.

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.

Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.

If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.

There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

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

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

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 in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

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

Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

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

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

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights

America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side.

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?

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

It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man.

The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories...

Together, we'll build a far better future for America -- a future of growth, opportunity, and security, anchored by the values of a people who are confident, compassionate, and whose heart is good.

I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.

I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years haunted the dreams of children everywhere. During that time my generation defeated totalitarianism. As a result, your world is poised for better tomorrows. What will you do on your journey?

Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.

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

You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

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

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

Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.

We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

Today, we're taking a break from the concerns and the bustle of the work-a-day world. But we're also making a new beginning. As we gather around our dining room tables for the midday meal, let us thank God for life and the blessings He's put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year.

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

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.