Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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.”

— Ronald Reagan

53. “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

54. “If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”

— Ronald Reagan

55. “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.”

— Ronald Reagan

56. “A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.”

— Ronald Reagan

57. “Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way.”

— Ronald Reagan

58. “Every new day begins with possibilities. It’s up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.”

— Ronald Reagan

59. “Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only chaos and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.”

— Ronald Reagan

60. “If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.”

— Ronald Reagan

61. “Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”

— Ronald Reagan

62. “Those who say that we’re in a time when there are no heroes, they just don’t know where to look.”

— Ronald Reagan

63. “You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday’s impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.”

— Ronald Reagan

64. “The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.”

— Ronald Reagan

65. “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.”

— Ronald Reagan

66. “Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it’s common sense.”

— Ronald Reagan

67. “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.”

— Ronald Reagan

68. “May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.”

— Ronald Reagan

69. “The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program.”

— Ronald Reagan

70. “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.’”

— Ronald Reagan

71. “Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.”

— Ronald Reagan

72. “We have every right to dream heroic dreams.”

— Ronald Reagan

73. “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.”

— Ronald Reagan

74. “A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.”

— Ronald Reagan

75. “There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”

— Ronald Reagan

76. “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.”

— Ronald Reagan

77. “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.”

— Ronald Reagan

78. “It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”

— Ronald Reagan

79. “I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.”

— Ronald Reagan

80. “To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.”

— Ronald Reagan

81. “The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”

— Ronald Reagan

82. “Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.”

— Ronald Reagan

83. “Man is not free unless government is limited.”

— Ronald Reagan

84. “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.”

— Ronald Reagan

85. “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

— Ronald Reagan

86. “For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.”

— Ronald Reagan

87. “The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him.”

— Ronald Reagan

88. “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”

— Ronald Reagan

89. “I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.”

— Ronald Reagan

90. “Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.”

— Ronald Reagan

91. “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.”

— Ronald Reagan

92. “Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.”

— Ronald Reagan

93. “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.”

— Ronald Reagan

94. “The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America’s becoming a great nation.”

— Ronald Reagan

95. “God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children’s classrooms.”

— Ronald Reagan

96. “For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.”

— Ronald Reagan

97. “We are never defeated unless we give up on God.”

— Ronald Reagan

98. “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.”

— Ronald Reagan

99. “America’s best days are yet to come.”

— Ronald Reagan

100. “Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”

— Ronald Reagan