Quotes from Ronald Reagan
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
When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future.
- Ronald Reagan
Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."
- Ronald Reagan
Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.
- Ronald Reagan
It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.
- Ronald Reagan
Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?
- Ronald Reagan
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
- Ronald Reagan
If not us, who? And if not now, when?
- Ronald Reagan
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
- Ronald Reagan
Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.
- Ronald Reagan
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
- Ronald Reagan
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.
- Ronald Reagan