Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2024 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. “He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and a true American champion.”

— 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. “Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O’Neill.”

— Ronald Reagan

455. “The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation’s law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

457. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

459. “Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?”

— Ronald Reagan

460. “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

461. “Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.”

— Ronald Reagan

462. “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

463. “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

464. “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

465. “For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

468. “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

469. “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

470. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

473. “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

474. “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

475. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

477. “The future belongs to the free.”

— Ronald Reagan

478. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

480. “Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

482. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

484. “Honey, I forgot to duck.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

486. “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

487. “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

488. “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

489. “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

490. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

494. “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

495. “Poverty is a career for lot’s of well paid people.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

497. “I think growing up in a small town is a good foundation for anyone who decides to enter politics. You get to know people as individuals, not as blocs or members of special interest groups.”

— Ronald Reagan

498. “Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

500. “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