Ronald Reagan Quotes About Communism

• 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

  Business, Government, Political

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

• Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

  Ronald Reagan

  Veterans Day, Freedom, Our Veterans

  Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey

• 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

  Freedom, Military, Moving

  Remarks to state chairs of National White House Conference on Small Business, 15 Aug. 1986

• Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Government, Presidential

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

• I've always believed that this blessed land was set apart in a special way, that some divine plan placed this great continent here between the oceans to be found by people from every corner of the Earth who had a special love for freedom and the courage to uproot themselves, leave homeland and friends, to come to a strange land. And coming here they created something new in all the history of mankind-a land where man is not beholden to government, government is beholden to man.

  Ronald Reagan

  Ocean, Blessed, Men

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

• The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Business, Military

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Political, Liberty, Dollars

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

• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Memorable, Europe

  Remarks at Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, 12 June 1987

• It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag.

  Ronald Reagan

  Leadership, Strong, Home

  Remarks on the Occasion of 83rd Birthday Gala, delivered 3 February 1994

• I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail. Both deny those God-given liberties that are the inalienable right of each person on this planet, indeed, they deny the existence of God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Philosophy, Liberty, Arbitrary

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

• [A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She said, "That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first."

  Ronald Reagan

  Science, Waiting, Firsts

• America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Soul, Moral

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.244, Humanix Books

• I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow men.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

• One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all.

  Ronald Reagan

  Upset, Breakfast, Communism

  Ronald Reagan's reaction to international criticism of the US invasion of Grenada during the press conference, November 3, 1983.

• The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Communication, Years

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. May 17, 1981.

• The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.

  Ronald Reagan

  Powerful, Battle, Weapons

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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