Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “There are no degrees of honesty.”

— Ronald Reagan

252. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

257. “One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

259. “I’ve always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him.”

— Ronald Reagan

260. “To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.”

— Ronald Reagan

261. “Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.”

— Ronald Reagan

262. “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

263. “We can’t have it both ways. We can’t expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn’t waiting for us to wake up, He isn’t maybe running out of patience.”

— Ronald Reagan

264. “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

265. “You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

267. “America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.”

— Ronald Reagan

268. “Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live.”

— Ronald Reagan

269. “Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.”

— Ronald Reagan

270. “We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.”

— Ronald Reagan

271. “Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America.”

— Ronald Reagan

272. “With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.”

— Ronald Reagan

273. “Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.”

— Ronald Reagan

274. “The current tax code is a daily mugging.”

— Ronald Reagan

275. “We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.”

— Ronald Reagan

276. “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

277. “In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.”

— Ronald Reagan

278. “Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.”

— Ronald Reagan

279. “Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.”

— Ronald Reagan

280. “We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!”

— Ronald Reagan

281. “Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.”

— Ronald Reagan

282. “Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.”

— Ronald Reagan

283. “Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.”

— Ronald Reagan

284. “We don’t celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day.”

— Ronald Reagan

285. “We’re more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.”

— Ronald Reagan

286. “I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands.”

— Ronald Reagan

287. “Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative.”

— Ronald Reagan

288. “This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.”

— Ronald Reagan

289. “I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.”

— Ronald Reagan

290. “If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.”

— Ronald Reagan

291. “This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.”

— Ronald Reagan

292. “My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.”

— Ronald Reagan

293. “To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.”

— Ronald Reagan

294. “You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between left or right. Well, I’d like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There’s only an up or down.”

— Ronald Reagan

295. “People who think a tax boost will cure inflation are the same ones who believe another drink will cure a hangover.”

— Ronald Reagan

296. “We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.”

— Ronald Reagan

297. “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

— Ronald Reagan

298. “May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.”

— Ronald Reagan

299. “Sometimes when I’m faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there’s a cook.”

— Ronald Reagan

300. “It’s not that liberals aren’t smart, it’s just that so much of what they know isn’t so.”

— Ronald Reagan