Ronald Reagan Quotes About Freedom

• 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

• Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, People, Presidential

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.7, Humanix Books

• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strength, Peace, Children

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

• 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

• 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

• Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

  Ronald Reagan

  Motivational, God, Freedom

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

• Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people. It is the right to follow your dream, or stick to your conscience even if you're the only one in a sea of doubters.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Freedom, Ideas

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

• Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Government, World

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

• 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

  Dream, Freedom, Men

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

• Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Way, Freedom Liberty

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

• You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Freedom, Sacrifice

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Strength, Peace, Freedom

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.183, Humanix Books

• We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Blessed, Fighting

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

• . . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Apology, Age

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

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Government, Problem

• If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Hands, World

• Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, War, Rights

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

• Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, People, Liberty

  Ronald Reagan (1998). “A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan”

• Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?" And the other one said, "That's easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering."

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Two, Differences

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

• Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

  Ronald Reagan

  Giving Up, Freedom, Liberty

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

• We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Simple, People

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.7, Humanix Books

• But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind - too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Hatred, Liberty

  Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, delivered 12 June 1987, West Berlin

• Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Law, Cynical

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

• I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.

  Ronald Reagan

  Religious, Freedom, Believe

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

• In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the . . . West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Freedom, Home

  Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

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