Ronald Reagan
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.Collection: Borders
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.Collection: Inspirational
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.Collection: Freedom
Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.Collection: Party
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.Collection: Freedom
I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.Collection: Funny
When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident.Collection: Mistake
I believe the best social program is a job.Collection: Jobs
Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which We the People tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the People are free.Collection: Government
If not us, who? And if not now, when?Collection: War
We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.Collection: Government
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.Collection: Strength
If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.Collection: Stupid
The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.Collection: Government
[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world.Collection: War
My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rightsCollection: Rights
The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.Collection: Government
To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.Collection: War
The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together, then one day we will say, "We fought the good fight. We finished the race. We kept the faith." And to our children and our children's children, we can say, "We did all what could be done in the brief time that was given us here on earth.".Collection: Inspirational
Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity or ideology. They do not fear the United States for its diplomatic skills or the number of automobiles and software programs it produces. They respect only the firepower of our tanks, planes and helicopter gunships.Collection: Skills
Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.Collection: Country
Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.Collection: Government
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.Collection: Spiritual
Let us thank God for life and the blessings He's put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year.Collection: New Year
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine....If you don't do this, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was like in American when men were free.Collection: Children
What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.Collection: People
Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.Collection: Forgiving
I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.Collection: Funny
I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.Collection: Peace
This democracy of ours, which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us not tear it asunder, for no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when he will find its protective warmth again.Collection: Men
The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work.Collection: Jobs
All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it's a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay....He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.Collection: Men
The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.Collection: Heart
I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.Collection: Doctors
We've been a free people living under the law, with faith in our Maker and in our future. I've said before that the most sublime picture in American history is of George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. That image personifies a people who know that it's not enough to depend on our own courage and goodness; we must also seek help from God, our Father and Preserver.Collection: Father
By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.Collection: Teamwork
If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.Collection: Responsibility
We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.Collection: Economy
Are you better off today than you were four years ago?Collection: Years
There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.Collection: Two
The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an idea that became a country - was a nation governed by professional politicians who had an interest in getting re-elected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then eagerly looking forward to getting back to the farm.Collection: Country
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.Collection: Love
Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage.Collection: God
When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself.Collection: Religious
Illegal immigrants in considerable numbers have become productive members of our society and are a basic part of our work force. Those who have established equities in the United States should be recognized and accorded legal status. At the same time, in so doing, we must not encourage illegal immigration.Collection: Numbers
The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.Collection: Memorial Day
Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it againCollection: Lost
I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.Collection: Integrity
Every new day begins with possibilities.Collection: New Day