Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

303. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

307. “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

308. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

310. “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

311. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

313. “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

314. “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

315. “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

316. “A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

318. “Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.”

— Ronald Reagan

319. “I’m spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.”

— Ronald Reagan

320. “America’s economic strength depends on industry’s ability to improve productivity and quality and to remain on the cutting edge of technology, and that’s why the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is so important.”

— Ronald Reagan

321. “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

322. “Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.”

— Ronald Reagan

323. “Governments don’t reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.”

— Ronald Reagan

324. “It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

327. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

330. “America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.”

— Ronald Reagan

331. “Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.”

— Ronald Reagan

332. “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

333. “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

334. “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

335. “Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

337. “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

338. “How can a president not be an actor?”

— Ronald Reagan

339. “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

340. “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

341. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

343. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

345. “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

346. “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

347. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

349. “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

350. “The Federal Reserve is answerable to no one.”

— Ronald Reagan