Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Leadership Quotes

2. “There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.”

— Ronald Reagan

3. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”

— Ronald Reagan

4. “Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.”

— Ronald Reagan

5. “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

6. “By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Teamwork Quotes

7. “When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”

— Ronald Reagan

8. “If you're explaining, you're losing.”

— Ronald Reagan

9. “If not us, who? And if not now, when?”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Quotes About War

10. “America is too great for small dreams.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Quotes About War

12. “Doverey, no proverey – Trust but verify.”

— Ronald Reagan

13. “The future doesn't belong to the lighthearted. It belongs to the brave.”

— Ronald Reagan

14. “Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Quotes About Money, Quotes About Memories

15. “Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Peace Quotes, Evil Quotes

16. “How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Business Quotes, Government Quotes

17. “Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories...”

— Ronald Reagan

18. “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

Featured in: Mind Quotes, Progress Quotes

19. “Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.”

— Ronald Reagan

20. “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

21. “The price of freedom may be high, but never so costly as the loss of freedom.”

— Ronald Reagan

22. “If you think you can – you can!”

— Ronald Reagan

23. “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”

— Ronald Reagan

24. “America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.”

— Ronald Reagan

25. “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

Featured in: Quotes About War, Freedom Quotes, Rights Quotes

26. “I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?”

— Ronald Reagan

27. “Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.”

— Ronald Reagan

28. “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”

— Ronald Reagan

29. “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

— Ronald Reagan

30. “There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Marriage Quotes

31. “Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”

— Ronald Reagan

32. “I believe the best social program is a job.”

— Ronald Reagan

33. “It’s hard, when you’re up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Government Quotes

34. “As government expands, liberty contracts.”

— Ronald Reagan

35. “With freedom comes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Responsibility Quotes

36. “Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Compassion Quotes, Government Quotes, Rights Quotes

37. “To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.”

— Ronald Reagan

38. “Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Heaven Quotes

39. “Every new day begins with possibilities.”

— Ronald Reagan

40. “I’ll be like Scarlett O’Hara-I’ll think about it tomorrow.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Government Quotes

41. “Stick to your dreams and determine that you’re going to make them come true.”

— Ronald Reagan

42. “The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally – not a 20 percent traitor.”

— Ronald Reagan

43. “I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”

— Ronald Reagan

44. “The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we’re a part.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Quotes About Humanity

45. “We are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.”

— Ronald Reagan

46. “Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Courage Quotes, Patriotic Quotes

47. “It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”

— Ronald Reagan

48. “Never let the things you can’t do, stop you from doing what you can.”

— Ronald Reagan

49. “A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That’s how awful the loss is.”

— Ronald Reagan

50. “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”

— Ronald Reagan