Ronald Reagan Quotes

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

But our strategy for peace with freedom must also be based on strength — economic strength and military strength.

Since I came to the White House, I've gotten two hearing aids, had a colon operation, a prostate operation, skin cancer, and I've been shot...damn thing is, I've never felt better.

Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us that they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy "accommodation." And they say if we only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he will forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers.

America is too great for small dreams.

When the commander in chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal in order for them to do that.

არ არსებობს კაცისთვის იმაზე დიდი ბედნიერება, როდესაც დღის დასასრულს სახლის კარს უახლოვდება და იცის, რომ მის უკან ქალია, რომელიც მისი ნაბიჯების ხმის გაგონებას ელოდებოდა.''
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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.

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

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 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. It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the Federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government. Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it is not my intention to do away with government. It is, rather, to make it work-work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government.