Ronald Reagan Quotes

president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911-2004)

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Ronald Wilson Reagan (6 February 1911 – 5 June 2004) was an American politician and actor, who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Prior to his presidency, he served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975, following a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader. He was the husband of Jane Wyman (1940–1949) and Nancy Davis (married in 1952).

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Birth Name: Ronald Wilson Reagan

Also Known As: Dutch • The Gipper • The Great Communicator

Alternative Names: President Reagan • President Ronald Reagan • Ronald W. Reagan • Ronald W Reagan • R. W. Reagan

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We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

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

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

America is too great for small dreams.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day.

More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives