Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.”

— Ronald Reagan

302. “Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If we fail to select Godly leaders our destiny will surely be as that of the Roman Empire.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

304. “An actor knows two important things – to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That’s not bad advice for a politician either.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

306. “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

307. “It doesn’t do any good to hold the door open for someone if they don’t have a way to walk through it. And if they do have a way to pass through it then you probably don’t need to hold it open because they can open it for themselves.”

— Ronald Reagan

308. “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

309. “No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.”

— Ronald Reagan

310. “It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

312. “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

313. “The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.”

— Ronald Reagan

314. “The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.”

— Ronald Reagan

315. “Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.”

— Ronald Reagan

316. “This democracy of ours, which sometimes we’ve treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us not tear it asunder, for no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when he will find its protective warmth again.”

— Ronald Reagan

317. “The American people aren’t overtaxed. The government in Washington is overfed. The main difference between ourselves and the other side is: we see an America where every day is the Fourth of July. They see an America where every day is April 15.”

— Ronald Reagan

318. “Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.”

— Ronald Reagan

319. “Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.”

— Ronald Reagan

320. “You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.”

— Ronald Reagan

321. “A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.”

— Ronald Reagan

322. “In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America’s is.”

— Ronald Reagan

323. “America is still an eagle, and she’s ready to soar again.”

— Ronald Reagan

324. “What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.”

— Ronald Reagan

325. “There is purpose and worth to each and every life.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

327. “We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.”

— Ronald Reagan

328. “They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.”

— Ronald Reagan

329. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. And get a massage – you look really stressed.”

— Ronald Reagan

330. “People do not make wars; governments do.”

— Ronald Reagan

331. “I doubt evolution is real.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

333. “I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”

— Ronald Reagan

334. “Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.”

— Ronald Reagan

335. “Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.”

— Ronald Reagan

336. “Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.”

— Ronald Reagan

337. “I remain California-bound.”

— Ronald Reagan

338. “If you owe the bank $10,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $10,000,000 they have a problem. After all is said and done, more is said than done. Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”

— Ronald Reagan

339. “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

340. “For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.”

— Ronald Reagan

341. “Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.”

— Ronald Reagan

342. “We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

344. “If our planes were shot down, yes, they’s wake me right away. If the other fellows’ were shot down, why wake me up?”

— Ronald Reagan

345. “I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.”

— Ronald Reagan

346. “Double – no, triple – our troubles and we’d still be better off than any other people on earth.”

— Ronald Reagan

347. “Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court’s result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.”

— Ronald Reagan

348. “For a time, we forgot the American dream isn’t one of making government bigger, it’s keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God.”

— Ronald Reagan

349. “If we don’t want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.”

— Ronald Reagan

350. “Spending on the military doesn’t increase the deficit.”

— Ronald Reagan