“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
“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.”
“We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.”
“America is too great for small dreams.”
“When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”
“If you're explaining, you're losing.”
“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.”
“If not us, who? And if not now, when?”
“The future doesn't belong to the lighthearted. It belongs to the brave.”
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.”
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”
“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.”
“By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.”
“Doverey, no proverey – Trust but verify.”
“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.”
“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”
“America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.”
“If you think you can – you can!”
“Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.”
“I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?”
“Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.”
“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.”
“Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories...”
“The price of freedom may be high, but never so costly as the loss of freedom.”
“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.”
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
“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.”
“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
“As government expands, liberty contracts.”
“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I’ll be like Scarlett O’Hara-I’ll think about it tomorrow.”
“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
“Stick to your dreams and determine that you’re going to make them come true.”
“I believe the best social program is a job.”
“With freedom comes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Every new day begins with possibilities.”
“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
“Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it’s common sense.”
“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.”
“We are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.”
“It’s hard, when you’re up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.”
“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.”
“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.”
“You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday’s impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.”
“Let us thank God for life and the blessings He’s put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year.”
“Without a vision the people perish.”
“May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.”
“Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way.”
“There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.”
“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.”
“A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.”
“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.”
“Every new day begins with possibilities. It’s up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.”
“The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.”
“If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.”
“I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.”
“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.”
“Never let the things you can’t do, stop you from doing what you can.”
“We have every right to dream heroic dreams.”
“A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.”
“The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him.”
“You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, ‘There is a price we will not pay.’ There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase ‘Peace through strength.’”
“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
“Those who say that we’re in a time when there are no heroes, they just don’t know where to look.”
“I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.”
“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.”
“Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone’s reputation, and you don’t have to talk about what he stands for.”
“I’ve always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.”
“We desire peace. But peace is a goal, not a policy. Lasting peace is what we hope for at the end of our journey. It doesn’t describe the steps we must take nor the paths we should follow to reach that goal.”
“Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.”
“America’s best days are yet to come.”
“America’s best days lie ahead. You ain’t seen nothing yet.”
“Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.”
“God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children’s classrooms.”
“If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.”
“Man is not free unless government is limited.”
“We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.”
“To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.”
“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”
“Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.”
“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”
“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.”
“America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it’s all right to keep asking if we’re on His side.”
“The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America’s becoming a great nation.”
“My dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the Earth.”
“We are never defeated unless we give up on God.”
“I’m no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn’t even a word for freedom.”
“For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.”
“The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.”
“The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America – our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal.”
“Cold, hungry, scared as hell inside, but too damn brave to admit it.”
“Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.”
“Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.”
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