Ronald Reagan
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.Collection: Patriotism
We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute.Collection: Change
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.Collection: Food
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.Collection: Money
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.Collection: Freedom
The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.Collection: Future
We are never defeated unless we give up on God.Collection: Faith
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.Collection: Inspirational
You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.Collection: Food
When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.Collection: Leadership
Man is not free unless government is limited.Collection: Government
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Great
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.Collection: Intelligence
Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.Collection: Strength
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.Collection: Future
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.Collection: Politics
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.Collection: Women
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.Collection: Life
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.Collection: History
I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: 'This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.' Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.Collection: Faith
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.Collection: Business
A people free to choose will always choose peace.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Christmas
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.Collection: Food
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?Collection: Work
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.Collection: God
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Work
The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.Collection: Leadership
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.Collection: Government
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.Collection: Government
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!Collection: Life
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Society
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.Collection: Government
For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.Collection: Peace
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.Collection: Patriotism
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.Collection: Funny
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.Collection: Great
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.Collection: Politics
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.Collection: Politics
Let us ask ourselves, 'What kind of people do we think we are?' And let us answer, 'Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.'Collection: Freedom
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.Collection: Success
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.Collection: Time
Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.Collection: God
Facts are stubborn things.Collection: Truth
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.Collection: Power
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'.Collection: Money
What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.Collection: Best