Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

253. “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

254. “The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.”

— Ronald Reagan

255. “We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.”

— Ronald Reagan

256. “Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

258. “Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

260. “If we listen to our hearts, believe in ourselves, and pull together, nothing can stand in our way.”

— Ronald Reagan

261. “The Bible can touch our hearts, order our minds, refresh our souls.”

— Ronald Reagan

262. “Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

265. “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

266. “I can’t help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people.”

— Ronald Reagan

267. “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

268. “Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.”

— Ronald Reagan

269. “When I’ve heard all I need to make a decision, I don’t take a vote. I make a decision.”

— Ronald Reagan

270. “Detente – isn’t that what a farmer has with his turkey – until Thanksgiving?”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

273. “Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again.”

— Ronald Reagan

274. “Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

278. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

282. “These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

285. “History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”

— Ronald Reagan

286. “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

287. “We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

289. “I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.”

— Ronald Reagan

290. “We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.”

— Ronald Reagan

291. “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

292. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

294. “Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.”

— Ronald Reagan

295. “A stronger defense is an investment in peace.”

— Ronald Reagan

296. “The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”

— Ronald Reagan

297. “We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.”

— Ronald Reagan

298. “The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.”

— Ronald Reagan

299. “The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”

— Ronald Reagan

300. “Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”

— Ronald Reagan