Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

303. “We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

305. “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

306. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

308. “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

309. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

312. “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

313. “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

314. “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

315. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

318. “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

319. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

321. “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

322. “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

323. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

325. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

328. “Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

336. “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

337. “I doubt evolution is real.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

339. “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

340. “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

341. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

344. “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

345. “An informed patriotism is what we want.”

— Ronald Reagan

346. “I remain California-bound.”

— Ronald Reagan

347. “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

348. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan