Ronald Reagan
Thomas Jefferson once said. He said , "We should never judge a President by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that, I've stopped worrying. There are those who say I've stopped working.Collection: Funny
Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.Collection: Government
Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide.Collection: Men
Excellence does not begin in Washington.Collection: Excellence
Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.Collection: Building
I don't think any of us should forget that the security of America is our highest responsibility.Collection: Responsibility
Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.Collection: Gun
I know at times we feel that perhaps in our prayers we ask too much. Or possibly we feel something isn't important enough to be bothering God with it. Maybe we should let Him decide these things.Collection: Prayer
You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.Collection: Government
They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism.Collection: Believe
At the root of everything that we’re trying to accomplish is the belief that America has a mission. We are a nation of freedom, living under God, believing all citizens must have the opportunity to grow, create wealth, and build a better life for those who follow. If we live up to those moral values, we can keep the American dream alive for our children and our grandchildren, and America will remain mankind’s best hope.Collection: Dream
May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.Collection: 4th Of July
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.Collection: Nature
There are no degrees of honesty.Collection: Honesty
Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.Collection: Freedom
There are worse things to be called than a dreamer.Collection: Dreamer
Government must not supersede the will of the people or the responsibilities of the people. The function of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.Collection: Responsibility
Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom. The second vision believes that religion is opium for the masses. It believes that eternal principles like truth, liberty, and democracy have no meaning beyond the whim of the state. And [Vladimir] Lenin spoke for them.Collection: Believe
People don't start wars, governments do.Collection: War
...I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law... the United States must institute comprehensive reforms that conform to the realities of the era in which we live.Collection: Believe
There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."Collection: Government
We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)Collection: Dog
I'm a sucker for hero worship.Collection: Hero
The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him.Collection: Turns
Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.Collection: Past
When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future.Collection: Home
The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.Collection: Income
I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the local school districts, where we built the greatest public school system the world has ever seen. I think I can make a case that the decline in the quality of public education began when federal aid became federal interference.Collection: School
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.Collection: Determination
Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?"Collection: Kindness
I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine.Collection: Children
We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows.Collection: Arrows
A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.Collection: Country
One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.Collection: Errors
It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.Collection: Unions
I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.Collection: Believe
We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.Collection: War
We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.Collection: Doctors
I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.Collection: Morning
I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.Collection: Funny
We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.Collection: Weakness
California produces 40% of America's fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts - the kind you eat. We have had a bumper crop of the other variety, too.Collection: Vegetables
If you're explaining, you're losing.Collection: Funny
God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.Collection: Children
Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.Collection: Government
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.Collection: Government
We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.Collection: Country
Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.Collection: Inspirational
We're Americans, and we have a rendezvous with destiny . . . No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than Americans.Collection: Destiny