Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.”

— Ronald Reagan

202. “Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let’s not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.”

— Ronald Reagan

203. “Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.”

— Ronald Reagan

204. “The Soviet Union is the focus of evil in the modern world.”

— Ronald Reagan

205. “We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.”

— Ronald Reagan

206. “We’ve got to teach history based not on what’s in fashion, but what’s important.”

— Ronald Reagan

207. “Our National Motto – ‘In God We Trust’ – was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage.”

— Ronald Reagan

208. “Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom’s front. And we thank God for them.”

— Ronald Reagan

209. “When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself.”

— Ronald Reagan

210. “Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”

— Ronald Reagan

211. “You know, by the time you reach my age, you’ve made plenty of mistakes if you’ve lived your life properly.”

— Ronald Reagan

212. “I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation’s natural resources.”

— Ronald Reagan

213. “Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.”

— Ronald Reagan

214. “No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!”

— Ronald Reagan

215. “Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better.”

— Ronald Reagan

216. “Perhaps there is a simple answer – not an easy answer – but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.”

— Ronald Reagan

217. “A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.”

— Ronald Reagan

218. “I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn’t spring full-bloom from my brow – they came from the heart of a great nation.”

— Ronald Reagan

219. “I won’t hold my opponent’s youth and inexperience against him.”

— Ronald Reagan

220. “Middle age is when you’re faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o’clock.”

— Ronald Reagan

221. “I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.”

— Ronald Reagan

222. “Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.”

— Ronald Reagan

223. “You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.”

— Ronald Reagan

224. “In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.”

— Ronald Reagan

225. “As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will not surrender for it – now or ever.”

— Ronald Reagan

226. “We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.”

— Ronald Reagan

227. “I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.”

— Ronald Reagan

228. “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”

— Ronald Reagan

229. “There are no degrees of honesty.”

— Ronald Reagan

230. “There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.”

— Ronald Reagan

231. “I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.”

— Ronald Reagan

232. “Freedom is indivisible – there is no “s” on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep “some freedoms” while giving up others.”

— Ronald Reagan

233. “Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.”

— Ronald Reagan

234. “The things that unite us-America’s past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us.”

— Ronald Reagan

235. “My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God’s plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best.”

— Ronald Reagan

236. “The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.”

— Ronald Reagan

237. “I don’t have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.”

— Ronald Reagan

238. “When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future.”

— Ronald Reagan

239. “I’m not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.”

— Ronald Reagan

240. “Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.”

— Ronald Reagan

241. “These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.”

— Ronald Reagan

242. “One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.”

— Ronald Reagan

243. “Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.”

— Ronald Reagan

244. “But the simple truth is that we’ve lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.”

— Ronald Reagan

245. “Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.”

— Ronald Reagan

246. “My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity’s arm steadying your way.”

— Ronald Reagan

247. “The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it’s declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray.”

— Ronald Reagan

248. “Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”

— Ronald Reagan

249. “I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

— Ronald Reagan

250. “Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.”

— Ronald Reagan