Ronald Reagan
We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.Collection: Mean
Perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.Collection: Heart
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and - above all - responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.Collection: Destiny
I'm not smart enough to lieCollection: Smart
The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.Collection: Country
May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.Collection: New Beginnings
What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.Collection: Needs
I notice that all of the people who support abortion are already born.Collection: People
We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.Collection: Dream
A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.Collection: Eggs
From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.Collection: Mother
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianismCollection: Mean
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.Collection: New Year
I looked out the window and saw this white light.It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said,Have you ever seen anything like that? He was shocked and he said, "Nope." And I said to him: "Let's follow it!" We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light.We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it.Collection: Light
We have every right to dream heroic dreams.Collection: Dream
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.Collection: Thanksgiving
Today, we're taking a break from the concerns and the bustle of the work-a-day world. But we're also making a new beginning... Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives, and let us resolve to face the challenges of the new year holding that conviction firmly in our hearts. That, after all, is our greatest strength and our greatest gift as Americans.Collection: New Year
Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid peopleCollection: Careers
Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.Collection: Hero
If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chipCollection: Funny
The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)Collection: Funny
Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with the strength, character, convictions, and faith necessary to withstand great hardship and danger in this new and rugged land. These shared beliefs helped forge a sense of common purpose among the widely dispersed colonies - a sense of community which laid the foundation for the spirit of nationhood that was to develop in later decades.Collection: Bible
The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and so many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution 165 authorized and requested the President to designate the year 1983 as the 'Year of the Bible.'Collection: Bible
And one more idea which may be laughed and sneered at in some supposedly sophisticated circles, but I just have to believe that the loving God who has blessed this land and thus made us a good and caring people should never have been expelled from America's classrooms. It's time to welcome Him back, because whenever we've opened ourselves and trusted in Him, we've gained not only moral courage but intellectual strength.Collection: Religious
When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale.Collection: Gentleman
If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.Collection: Jobs
Cold, hungry, scared as hell inside, but too damn brave to admit it.Collection: Brave
Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-AmericanCollection: Unjust
I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.Collection: Citizens
I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for my own values and beliefs. My candidacy is based on my record, and for that matter, my entire life.Collection: Order
Well, the task I've set forth will long outlive our own generation. But together, we too have come through the worst. Let us now begin a major effort to secure the best- a crusade for freedom that will engage the faith and fortitude of the next generation. 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: War
Cars don't cause pollution, trees do.Collection: Car
We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.Collection: Air
This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.Collection: Humanity
He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and a true American champion.Collection: Blow
One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.Collection: Children
The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not necessarily the biggest in size, or the wealthiest in natural resources. No, what unites them all is their willingness to believe in the magic of the marketplace.Collection: Believe
America's best days are yet to come.Collection: America
Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.Collection: Meaningful
Now, I happen to be an optimist.Collection: Optimist
That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will.Collection: Jobs
Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to stand firm against those who would destroy the freedoms we cherish. We are determined to achieve an enduring peace - a peace with liberty and with honor. This determination, this resolve, is the highest tribute we can pay to the many who have fallen in the service of our Nation.Collection: Memorial Day
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights that make for human dignity and progress. America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace. Every blow we inflict against poverty will be a blow against its dark allies of oppression and war. Every victory for human freedom will be a victory for world peace.Collection: Determination
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.Collection: Christmas
Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.Collection: Freedom
More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures.Collection: Tree
Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.Collection: Giving Up
Well, it [evolution] is a theory, it is a scientific theory only, and it has in recent years been challenged in the world of science and is not yet believed in the scientific community to be as infallible as it once was believed. But if it was going to be taught in the schools, then I think that also the biblical theory of creation, which is not a theory but the biblical story of creation, should also be taught.Collection: School
My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.Collection: Dream