Ronald Reagan Quotes About Earth

• If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, President, Earth

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

• 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”

• I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things'.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Believe, Thinking

• No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Political, Voting

  Television broadcast, 27 Oct. 1964

• . . . And always remember that you are Americans, and it is your birthright to dream great dreams in this sweet and blessed land, truly the greatest, freest, strongest nation on Earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Sweet, Blessed

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

• We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Presidential, Special

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.83, Humanix Books

• The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Earth, Program

• We're Americans, and we have a rendezvous with destiny . . . No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than Americans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Destiny, Men, People

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

• Americans are not going to tolerate intimidation, terror and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. And we are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich ... There can be no place on earth where it is safe for these monsters to rest,or train or practice their cruel and deadly. We must act together - or unilateraly, if necessary - to ensue that these terrorists have no sanctuary, anywhere.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, War, Practice

  A speech to the American Bar Association after the TWA Flight 847 hijacking, June 14, 1985.

• The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together, then one day we will say, "We fought the good fight. We finished the race. We kept the faith." And to our children and our children's children, we can say, "We did all what could be done in the brief time that was given us here on earth.".

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Children, Believe

• The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Goodbye, Morning, Journey

  The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Tragedy Address, delivered 28 January 1986

• You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Children, Patriotic

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, NewsMax Media, Inc.

• We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  One Day, Nuclear, Earth

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.194, Humanix Books

• If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Years, Land

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

• Double - no, triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Motivational, People, Survival

• It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Practice, Earth

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

• [The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Men, Omnipotence

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

• Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space, we will find liberation from tyranny, from scarcity, from ignorance and from war. We will find the means to protect this Earth and to nurture every human life, and to explore the universe. . . .This is our mission, this is our destiny.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Mean, Ignorance

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

• I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight, we have.

  Ronald Reagan

  Practice, Skills, Sanctuary

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

• You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Destiny, Men

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

• How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best hope of man on Earth? After all our struggles to restore America, to revive confidence in our country, hope for our future - after all our hard-won victories earned through the patience and courage of every citizen - we cannot, must not, and will not turn. We will finish our job. How could we do less? We're Americans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Jobs, Believe

  Reagan, Ronald (1986). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1984”, p.93, Best Books on

• The work of volunteer groups throughout our country represents the very heart and soul of America. They have helped make this the most compassionate, generous, and humane society that ever existed on the face of this earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Heart, America

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

• We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Dark, Destiny

• I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Patriotic, Thinking

• We're not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Numbers, One Day, Nuclear

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

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