Ronald Reagan Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collation of Ronald Reagan quotes and sayings. Ronald Wilson Reagan was an actor, the 33rd governor of California, as well as the 40th President of the United States.

“A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.”
– Ronald Reagan

“A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
– Ronald Reagan

“A taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take a civil-service exam.”
– Ronald Reagan

“And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was eight years ago. But more than that; after 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she’s still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.”
– Ronald Reagan

“Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.”
– Ronald Reagan

“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, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
– Ronald Reagan

“General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
– Ronald Reagan

“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”
– Ronald Reagan

“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”
– Ronald Reagan

“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
– Ronald Reagan

“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”
– Ronald Reagan

“How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
– Ronald Reagan

“I am paying for this microphone…!” (When a debate moderator threatened to cut off his mike at a debate he paid for.)
– Ronald Reagan

“I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.”
– Ronald Reagan

“I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.”
– Ronald Reagan

“I hope you’re all Republicans.”
– Ronald Reagan

“I want you to know 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.”
– Ronald Reagan

“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.”
– Ronald Reagan

“If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”
– Ronald Reagan

“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
– Ronald Reagan

“I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That’s how I saw it and see it still.”
– Ronald Reagan

“My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.”
– Ronald Reagan

“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”
– Ronald Reagan

“One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government’s primary concerns.”
– Ronald Reagan

“One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.”
– Ronald Reagan

“Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?”
– Ronald Reagan

“Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.”
– Ronald Reagan

“The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.”
– Ronald Reagan

“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 to 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.”
– Ronald Reagan

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’.”
– Ronald Reagan

“The ultimate determinate in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas – a trial of spiritual resolve; the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideas to which we are dedicated.”
– Ronald Reagan

“Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.”
– Ronald Reagan

“Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.”
– Ronald Reagan

“Trust, but verify.”
– Ronald Reagan

“We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.”
– Ronald Reagan

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