Ronald Reagan Quotes About Peace

• Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strength, Peace, War

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

• Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

  Ronald Reagan

  Love, Peace, War

• 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

• People do not make wars; governments do.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Government

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

• Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Peace, War

  Ronald Reagan's Remarks at the National Conference of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, www.reaganfoundation.org. March 30, 1981.

• Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Rights

• 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

• Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Life, Strength, Peace

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

• History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

  Ronald Reagan

  Veterans Day, Money, Peace

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

• A people free to choose will always choose peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, People

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

• Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  New Year, Peace, Moving

  Ronald Reagan (1985). “The Geneva summit: a fresh start”

• I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, Jobs, War

• I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Peace, Mean

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.153, Humanix Books

• We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, Believe, Liberty

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

• The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Fighting

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

• Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Conflict

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

• When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Fire

• I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Climbing

• It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Mean

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

• The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Winning

• No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mother, Peace, War

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

• Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in 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, the ideals to which we are dedicated.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spiritual, Peace, Military

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

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