Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.”

— Ronald Reagan

102. “My dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the Earth.”

— Ronald Reagan

103. “America’s best days lie ahead. You ain’t seen nothing yet.”

— Ronald Reagan

104. “We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”

— Ronald Reagan

105. “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.”

— Ronald Reagan

106. “There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”

— Ronald Reagan

107. “The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.”

— Ronald Reagan

108. “I’m no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn’t even a word for freedom.”

— Ronald Reagan

109. “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.”

— Ronald Reagan

110. “Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.”

— Ronald Reagan

111. “Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.”

— Ronald Reagan

112. “We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.”

— Ronald Reagan

113. “The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.”

— Ronald Reagan

114. “If you can’t summarize an issue on one page, you don’t understand the issue well enough.”

— Ronald Reagan

115. “Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.”

— Ronald Reagan

116. “A nation’s greatness is measured not just by its gross national product or military power, but by the strength of its devotion to the principles and values that bind its people and define their character.”

— Ronald Reagan

117. “Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.”

— Ronald Reagan

118. “If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.”

— Ronald Reagan

119. “I didn’t leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.”

— Ronald Reagan

120. “We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective...”

— Ronald Reagan

121. “Cars don’t cause pollution, trees do.”

— Ronald Reagan

122. “The work of volunteer groups throughout our country represents the very heart and soul of America. They have helped make this the most compassionate, generous, and humane society that ever existed on the face of this earth.”

— Ronald Reagan

123. “Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them.”

— Ronald Reagan

124. “Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.”

— Ronald Reagan

125. “Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.”

— Ronald Reagan

126. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

— Ronald Reagan

127. “In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind’s best hope.”

— Ronald Reagan

128. “Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got back, he wasn’t sure where he’d been. But most important of all, he did it on someone else’s money.”

— Ronald Reagan

129. “Cold, hungry, scared as hell inside, but too damn brave to admit it.”

— Ronald Reagan

130. “If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he’ll eat you last.”

— Ronald Reagan

131. “There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.”

— Ronald Reagan

132. “No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.”

— Ronald Reagan

133. “I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”

— Ronald Reagan

134. “We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.”

— Ronald Reagan

135. “Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”

— Ronald Reagan

136. “Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.”

— Ronald Reagan

137. “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”

— Ronald Reagan

138. “We could say they government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.”

— Ronald Reagan

139. “The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our freedoms.”

— Ronald Reagan

140. “Either you will control your government, or government will control you.”

— Ronald Reagan

141. “Marijuana is probably the most dangerous drug in America today.”

— Ronald Reagan

142. “The Founding Fathers knew a government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.”

— Ronald Reagan

143. “God’s miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree – all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.”

— Ronald Reagan

144. “I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things.”

— Ronald Reagan

145. “Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.”

— Ronald Reagan

146. “We’ve gone astray from first principles. We’ve lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we’ve accomplished. Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”

— Ronald Reagan

147. “Don’t be afraid to see what you see.”

— Ronald Reagan

148. “Trust the people – that is the crucial lesson of history.”

— Ronald Reagan

149. “Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.”

— Ronald Reagan

150. “Some may try to tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming.”

— Ronald Reagan