Ronald Reagan Quotes About Common Sense

• Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

  Ronald Reagan

  Common Sense, Challenges, Conservative

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

• If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources.

  Ronald Reagan

  Thoughtful, Past, Common Sense

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

• It would seem that not only is religion lacking in the schools - so is common sense. I wonder what a teacher is supposed to say if a kid asks about those four words on a dime - 'In God We Trust.' Or maybe that's why they aren't being taught how to read these days.

  Ronald Reagan

  Teacher, School, Kids

• With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.

  Ronald Reagan

  Responsibility, Gun, Common Sense

• Common sense told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So, we rebuilt our defenses, and this New Year we toasted the new peacefulness around the globe. Not only have the superpowers actually begun to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons...but the regional conflicts that rack the globe are also beginning to cease.

  Ronald Reagan

  New Year, Strong, Years

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

• I think, too, that we've got to recognize that where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a common sense limit. I mean, if you've looked at a hundred thousand acres or so of trees-you know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need to look at?
  Opposing expansion of Redwood National Park.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Thinking, Common Sense

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