Ronald Reagan Quotes About Progress

• There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Mind, Progress

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

• There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Giving Up, Men, Hands

• 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”

• We must remove government's smothering hand from where it does harm; we must seek to revitalize the proper functions of government. We do these things to set loose again the energy and the ingenuity of the American people. We do these things to reinvigorate those social and economic institutions which serve as a buffer and a bridge between the individual and the state - and which remain the real source of our progress as a people.

  Ronald Reagan

  Real, Government, Hands

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

• Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights that make for human dignity and progress. America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace. Every blow we inflict against poverty will be a blow against its dark allies of oppression and war. Every victory for human freedom will be a victory for world peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  Determination, War, Dark

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

• There are no limits to growth and human progress
  when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Men, Growth

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

• By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society. We believed then and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, War, Men

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

• Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, War, Government

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

• We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Rights, Goal

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “Building peace through strength: August 23, 1983”

• The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not necessarily the biggest in size, or the wealthiest in natural resources. No, what unites them all is their willingness to believe in the magic of the marketplace.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Magic, Progress

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