Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2025 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: Inspirational Quotes, Leadership Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Impact Quotes, Important 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

Featured in: Effort Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Encouragement Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Character Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Effort Quotes, Quotes About Work

6. “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

Featured in: Fighting Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Government Quotes, Quotes on Liberty

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Peace Quotes, Quotes About War

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Quotes About War

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Quotes About Trust

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Greatness Quotes

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Boldness Quotes, Future Quotes

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

— Ronald Reagan

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15. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

17. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

20. “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

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21. “If you think you can – you can!”

— Ronald Reagan

22. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Vision Quotes, Patriotic Quotes

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: Freedom Quotes, Quotes About War, Rights Quotes

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

28. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Funny Work Quotes, Short Funny Quotes

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Freedom Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Scripture Quotes

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Friday Quotes for Work

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Heaven Quotes

36. “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: Satisfaction Quotes, Love You Quotes, Family Quotes, Soulmate Quotes

37. “Every new day begins with possibilities.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: New Beginnings Quotes, Beautiful Good Morning Quotes, Happy Monday Quotes, Good Morning Quotes for Him

38. “As government expands, liberty contracts.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Quotes on Liberty

39. “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

40. “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

41. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Obstacles Quotes

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Service Quotes, Military Quotes, Grateful Quotes, Quotes on Liberty

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

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Government Quotes

47. “Without a vision the people perish.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Vision Quotes

48. “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

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49. “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, Empowering Quotes, Winning Quotes, Military Quotes, Freedom Quotes

50. “We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.”

— Ronald Reagan

Featured in: Stay Strong Quotes, Military Quotes