Ronald Reagan
Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'Collection: Cat
Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life.Collection: Cancer
In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the . . . West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.Collection: Running
There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.Collection: United States
Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.Collection: Opportunity
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between left or right. Well, I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down.Collection: Wells
Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.Collection: Suicide
Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.Collection: Virtue
Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.Collection: Country
We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.Collection: War
The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.Collection: God
You get to know people as individuals. The dreams of people may differ, but everybody wants their dreams to come true. And America, above all places, gives us the freedom to do thatCollection: Dream
But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind - too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.Collection: Freedom
Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.Collection: Inspirational Life
We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much.Collection: Government
Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.Collection: Opposites
We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.Collection: Taken
We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day.Collection: July
Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit.Collection: Military
You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the jokes. Look at his record. He cut the taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we've ever known. I have taken heed of that because if he did that by doing nothing, maybe that's the answer.Collection: Taken
We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm.Collection: Harm
I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)Collection: White
It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!Collection: Drunk
If you owe the bank $10,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $10,000,000 they have a problem. After all is said and done, more is said than done. Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.Collection: Government
There you go again. When I opposed Medicare, there was another piece of legislation meeting the same problem before the Congress. I happened to favor the other piece of legislation and thought that it would be better for the senior citizens to provide better care than the one that was finally passed.Collection: Senior
The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find it.Collection: Century
We should never fear to negotiate, nor negotiate from fear.Collection: Should
I hope Americans will read and study the Bible in the coming year. It's my firm belief that the enduring values, as I say, presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation.Collection: Years
I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.Collection: Fun
Most of my dreams came true.Collection: Dream
I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him.Collection: May
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?Collection: Dream
I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.Collection: Country
I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - 'Thou shalt not, unless you feel strongly to the contrary'.Collection: Thinking
...100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt...all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government.Collection: Government
The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits of an issue - rather like a great, global town meeting. The emergence of blocks and the polarization of the United Nations undermine all that this organization initially valued.Collection: Block
What has happened to the dreams of the United Nations' founders? What has happened to the spirit which created the United Nations? The answer is clear: Governments got in the way of the dreams of the people.Collection: Dream
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.Collection: Veterans Day
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.Collection: Inspirational
Stick to your dreams and determine that you're going to make them come true.Collection: Dream
Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.Collection: Government
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.Collection: Dream
If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.Collection: Education
We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.Collection: Government
When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master.Collection: Government
Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.Collection: Dream
We must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in 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. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors. As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it; We will not surrender for it, now or ever. We are Americans.Collection: Sacrifice
Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.Collection: Men
We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?Collection: Children