Ronald Reagan Quotes
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701. “Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while the great majority owned little more than the shirts on their backs?”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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703. “For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.”

— Ronald Reagan

704. “I won’t hold my opponent’s youth and inexperience against him.”

— Ronald Reagan

705. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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707. “It’s just too bad we can’t have an epidemic of botulism.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

712. “The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.”

— Ronald Reagan

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713. “I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.”

— Ronald Reagan

714. “It’s not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!”

— Ronald Reagan

715. “Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.”

— Ronald Reagan

716. “Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.”

— Ronald Reagan

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717. “Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.”

— Ronald Reagan

718. “We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.”

— Ronald Reagan

719. “You get to know people as individuals. The dreams of people may differ, but everybody wants their dreams to come true. And America, above all places, gives us the freedom to do that.”

— Ronald Reagan

720. “We can’t socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.”

— Ronald Reagan

721. “One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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723. “Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

725. “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

726. “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

727. “There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.”

— Ronald Reagan

728. “Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.”

— Ronald Reagan

729. “Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God’s children.”

— Ronald Reagan

730. “Middle age is when you’re faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o’clock.”

— Ronald Reagan

731. “A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.”

— Ronald Reagan

732. “Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

734. “Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.”

— Ronald Reagan

735. “Through you, we feel as giants, once again.”

— Ronald Reagan

736. “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

737. “Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.”

— Ronald Reagan

738. “The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they’ve left America. Don’t let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

741. “I’d like to harness their youthful energy with a strap.”

— Ronald Reagan

742. “I believe now, as I alway have, that America’s strength is in ‘We the People.’”

— Ronald Reagan

743. “And children, if your parents haven’t been teaching you what it means to be an American, let ’em know and nail ’em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.”

— Ronald Reagan

744. “One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.”

— Ronald Reagan

745. “Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?”

— Ronald Reagan

746. “If I’d gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.”

— Ronald Reagan

747. “He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and a true American champion.”

— Ronald Reagan

748. “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

749. “I hope Americans will read and study the Bible in the coming year. It’s my firm belief that the enduring values, as I say, presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation.”

— Ronald Reagan

750. “The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.”

— Ronald Reagan