Ronald Reagan
It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy.Collection: Meaningful
You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.Collection: Practice
Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but absent enforcement, there are too many accidents.Collection: Book
I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.Collection: Spring
This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you now to put aside any feelings of frustration or helplessness about our political institutions and join me in this dramatic but responsible plan to reduce the enormous burden of Federal taxation on you and your family.Collection: Fun
ALEC has forged a unique partnership between state legislators and leaders from the corporate and business community. This partnership offers businessmen the extraordinary opportunity to apply their talents to solve America's problems and build on our opportunities.Collection: Unique
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.Collection: Men
Margaret Thatcher - this great lady has not only served her country well, she has served the free world well.Collection: Country
Constructive trade, the two-way exchange of goods and services, is the most efficient and logical way for each nation . . . to build a stable prosperity, a prosperity based not on aid, but on mutually beneficial economic contacts.Collection: Two
If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.Collection: Want
An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk up to Reagan's desk and say, 'I don't like the way you are running the country.' Gorbachev replied, You can do the same thing in the Soviet Union. You can go into the Kremlin, walk up to my desk and say 'I don't like the way Reagan is running his country.'Collection: Running
The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.Collection: Democracy
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.Collection: Military
Doverey, no proverey - Trust but verify.Collection: Presidential
We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.Collection: Memorial Day
The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to prayCollection: People
Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.Collection: War
Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man.Collection: Giving Up
America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side.Collection: Believe
An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.Collection: Two
For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.Collection: Self
History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.Collection: Blessing
It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the envy of the world. In all of our great cities and towns evidence of the faith of our people is found: houses of worship of every denomination are among the oldest structures. While never willing to bow to a tyrant, our forefathers were always willing to get to their knees before God. When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance. When the harvest was bountiful the first thought was thanksgiving to God.Collection: God
. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.Collection: Government
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.Collection: Death
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.Collection: Freedom
We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.Collection: Party
Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should. Happy Fourth of July.Collection: Men
There are only two things that the liberals don't understand: the things that change and the things that don't.Collection: Two
For one, we very much need in any immigration bill - we need protection for people who are in this country and who have not become citizens, for example, that they are protected and legitimized and given permanent residency here. And we want to see some things of that kind added to the immigration bill.Collection: Country
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they found implicit in the Bible's teachings of the inherent worth and dignity of each individual. This same sense of man patterned the convictions of those who framed the English system of law inherited by our own Nation, as well as the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.Collection: Bible
The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.Collection: Mirrors
When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.Collection: Government
We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure.Collection: Running
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.Collection: Spirit
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual.Collection: Father
I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.Collection: Believe
There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of public virtue first nourished. Through love and instruction, discipline, guidance and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers the values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship.Collection: Mother
Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.Collection: Giving Up
We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.Collection: Life
The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer.Collection: Prayer
The Bible can touch our hearts, order our minds, refresh our souls.Collection: Heart
I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.Collection: Political
We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that granted to it by the people It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.Collection: Government
We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.Collection: Past
Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.Collection: Long
There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war. It's to be prepared for peace. There's a sign over the entrance to the Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state, and that sign says it all: 'Peace is our profession'.Collection: Military
The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or the next. It was the deep knowledge - and pray God we have not lost it - that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest.Collection: Men
If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.Collection: Freedom