Ronald Reagan
The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.Collection: Dream
Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren't becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we've always been a nation of doers.Collection: Reading
The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget . . . in the final analysis . . . that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger.Collection: Country
When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal for them to do that.Collection: Agency
A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.Collection: Reading
The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.Collection: Pay
Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.Collection: Girl
Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space, we will find liberation from tyranny, from scarcity, from ignorance and from war. We will find the means to protect this Earth and to nurture every human life, and to explore the universe. . . .This is our mission, this is our destiny.Collection: War
Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.Collection: July
Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.Collection: Country
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.Collection: Children
The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations.Collection: Neutrons
I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.Collection: War
Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.Collection: Children
Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate relative, but are part of extended families. The nepotistic U.S. policy lets in relatives then lets in the relatives' relatives, and so on, creating an endless and ever growing chain of new immigrants.Collection: Creating
No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.Collection: Powerful
There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, we have it in our power to begin the world over again.Collection: Character
You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.Collection: Actors
I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular threat?Collection: Fighting
Human beings are not animals, and I do not want to see sex and sexual differences treated as casually and amorally as dogs and other beasts treat them. I believe this could happen under the ERA.Collection: Dog
Are you better off than you were four years ago? One of my favorite quotes Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores ... Is there more or less unemployment?Collection: Years
Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. ... We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don't know where to look. ... 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.Collection: Dream
We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.Collection: Country
As two proud and independent peoples, there is much that distinguishes us one from the other, but there is also much that we share: a vast continent, with its common hardships and uncommon duties; generations of mutual respect and support, and an abiding friendship that grows ever stronger.Collection: Independent
The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.Collection: Japan
We can look forward to the day when the free flow of trade, from the southern reaches of Tierra del Fuego to the northern outposts of the Arctic Circle, unites the people of the Western Hemisphere in a bond of mutually beneficial exchange, when all borders become what the U.S.-Canadian border so long has been: a meeting place, rather than a dividing line.Collection: Circles
In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.Collection: Historical
There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones.Collection: Simple
I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess-we're not connected to the press room yet, are we?Collection: Numbers
I like photographers-you don't ask questions.Collection: Photography
Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business.Collection: Business
Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana.Collection: Marijuana
I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.Collection: Dream
I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.Collection: Time
I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others. Referring to one of the oldest and loveliest groves of redwoods, showing insensitivity to their magnificence.Collection: Beautiful
If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their businessCollection: Business
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. And get a massage - you look really stressedCollection: Wall
We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.Collection: One Day
Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt.Collection: Women
I notice that everbody who is Pro-Abortion already has been born.Collection: Abortion
We must act today in order to preserve tomorrowCollection: Order
Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to the treasury of human knowledge, accumulated and refined through the ages; it includes technical and vocational training as well as instruction in science, higher mathematics, and humane letters.Collection: Science
Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility.Collection: Education
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.Collection: Running
Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.Collection: Government
We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick - professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, "We the people," this breed called Americans.Collection: Children
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.Collection: War
We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.Collection: Responsibility
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.Collection: Compassion