Ronald Reagan Quotes - Page 21

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the ideas of the Founding Fathers, went on to become a beacon to all the oppressed and poor of the world.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Father, Ideas

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

  6 Copy quote

• The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.

  Ronald Reagan

  Risk, Damage, Serious

  Letter to Majority Leader Howard Baker, November 16, 1983.

  6 Copy quote

• It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Believe, Food

  15 Copy quote

• The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, Thinking, President

  6 Copy quote

• If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

  Ronald Reagan

  Impact, Government, Hands

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.427, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

• In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

  Ronald Reagan

  Light, America, Springtime

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

• The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Size, Social

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.882, Best Books on

  7 Copy quote

• The man who puts into the marriage only half
  of what he owns will get that out.

  Ronald Reagan

  Love, Marriage, Men

  Kiron K. Skinner, Ronald Reagan, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson (2004). “Reagan: A Life In Letters”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

  10 Copy quote

• Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

  Ronald Reagan

  Holiday, Celebration, Individual

  6 Copy quote

• I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Liberty, Veterans And Freedom

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

  7 Copy quote

• We have God's promise that what we give will be given back many times over, so let us go forth from here and rekindle the fire of our faith. Let our wisdom be vindicated by our deeds. We are told in II Timothy that when our work is done, we can say, ``We have fought the good fight. We have finished the race. We have kept the faith.'' This is an evidence of it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Fighting, Fire, Race

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

• Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people, and humanity at peace. For it is now our task to tend and preserve, through the darkest and coldest nights, that "sacred fire of liberty" that President Washington spoke of two centuries ago, a fire that tonight remains a beacon to all oppressed of the world, shining forth from this kindly, pleasant, greening land we call America.

  Ronald Reagan

  Night, Men, Fire

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

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Society, Alive, Spirit

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words”

  7 Copy quote

• We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with which all of them ennobled their nation as they became champions of a noble cause.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sacrifice, Our Veterans, Giving

  V-Day Ceremony Address at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, delivered 11 November 1988, Washington D.C.

  14 Copy quote

• I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.

  Ronald Reagan

  Taken, Gun, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

  Ronald Reagan

  Marine, America, Looks

  7 Copy quote

• The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

  Ronald Reagan

  Failing, Plans, Planners

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

  5 Copy quote

• Now I realize it's fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible. That we're told we'll violate the constitutional separation of church and state established by the Founding Fathers and the First Amendment. The First Amendment was not written to protect people and their laws from religious values. It was written to protect those values from government tyranny.

  Ronald Reagan

  Religious, Father, Believe

  11 Copy quote

• I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government once again the protector of our liberties, not the distributor of gifts and privilege. Government should uphold and not undermine those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded-religion, education and, above all, family. Government cannot be clergyman, teacher and patriot. It government is our servant, beholden to us.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spiritual, Teacher, Believe

  7 Copy quote

• Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

  Ronald Reagan

  Reality, People, Wonder

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

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

  Ronald Reagan

  Flames, Flying, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.

  Ronald Reagan

  Change, World, Changed

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

  4 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Jimmy Carter

Nancy Reagan

George H. W. Bush

Richard M. Nixon

George W. Bush

William J. Clinton

John F. Kennedy

Donald Trump