Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2023 Update)
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451. “California produces 40% of America’s fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts – the kind you eat. We have had a bumper crop of the other variety, too.”

— Ronald Reagan

452. “Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.”

— Ronald Reagan

453. “I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.”

— Ronald Reagan

454. “When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.”

— Ronald Reagan

455. “I supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.”

— Ronald Reagan

456. “One picture is worth 1,000 denials.”

— Ronald Reagan

457. “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

458. “Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation.”

— Ronald Reagan

459. “I’d like to harness their youthful energy with a strap.”

— Ronald Reagan

460. “For the people of Israel and America are historic partners in the global quest for human dignity and freedom. We will always remain at each other’s side.”

— Ronald Reagan

461. “I hope Americans will read and study the Bible in the coming year. It’s my firm belief that the enduring values, as I say, presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation.”

— Ronald Reagan

462. “If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I’ll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!”

— Ronald Reagan

463. “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.”

— Ronald Reagan

464. “I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.”

— Ronald Reagan

465. “Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.”

— Ronald Reagan

466. “Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?”

— Ronald Reagan

467. “Our leaders must remember that education doesn’t begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn’t even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility.”

— Ronald Reagan

468. “I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent – we can take our Fifth Amendment.”

— Ronald Reagan

469. “I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him.”

— Ronald Reagan

470. “No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.”

— Ronald Reagan

471. “When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.”

— Ronald Reagan

472. “Wouldn’t it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.”

— Ronald Reagan

473. “Honey, I forgot to duck.”

— Ronald Reagan

474. “The future belongs to the free.”

— Ronald Reagan

475. “Hayek is amongst the top 2-3 of the all the people who ever influenced me.”

— Ronald Reagan

476. “It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.”

— Ronald Reagan

477. “Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.”

— Ronald Reagan

478. “Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.”

— Ronald Reagan

479. “I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.”

— Ronald Reagan

480. “I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.”

— Ronald Reagan

481. “By emphasizing the importance of a common language, we safeguard a proud legacy and help to ensure that America’s future will be as great as her past.”

— Ronald Reagan

482. “A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.”

— Ronald Reagan

483. “Shouldn’t someone tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.”

— Ronald Reagan

484. “The bill’s a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.”

— Ronald Reagan

485. “There are simple answers to the nation’s problems, but not easy ones.”

— Ronald Reagan

486. “The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.”

— Ronald Reagan

487. “We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn’t end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds.”

— Ronald Reagan

488. “Most of my dreams came true.”

— Ronald Reagan

489. “I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.”

— Ronald Reagan

490. “Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It’s something to do with hormones, no doubt.”

— Ronald Reagan

491. “These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.”

— Ronald Reagan

492. “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

— Ronald Reagan

493. “Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.”

— Ronald Reagan

494. “Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again.”

— Ronald Reagan

495. “Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.”

— Ronald Reagan

496. “Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.”

— Ronald Reagan

497. “My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.”

— Ronald Reagan

498. “Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana.”

— Ronald Reagan

499. “I’ve heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn’t license it.”

— Ronald Reagan

500. “I’m just a citizen temporarily in public service.”

— Ronald Reagan