Quotes from Ronald Reagan

America is too great for small dreams.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

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.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

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

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!

Life is one grand sweet song so start the music

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

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

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.