Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2023 Update)
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351. “Spending on the military doesn’t increase the deficit.”

— Ronald Reagan

352. “Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”

— Ronald Reagan

353. “Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought, and humbly accepted.”

— Ronald Reagan

354. “Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American’s hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.”

— Ronald Reagan

355. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

357. “Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.”

— Ronald Reagan

358. “It’s time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.”

— Ronald Reagan

359. “We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.”

— Ronald Reagan

360. “Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal.”

— Ronald Reagan

361. “History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.”

— Ronald Reagan

362. “I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn’t have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.”

— Ronald Reagan

363. “There is nothing wrong with America that Americans can’t fix.”

— Ronald Reagan

364. “The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.”

— Ronald Reagan

365. “Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.”

— Ronald Reagan

366. “Life involves effort and growth. You won’t grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren’t becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we’ve always been a nation of doers.”

— Ronald Reagan

367. “I don’t know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.”

— Ronald Reagan

368. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

370. “They don’t subscribe to our sense of morality; they don’t believe in an afterlife; they don’t believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism.”

— Ronald Reagan

371. “I’m convinced, more than ever, that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man.”

— Ronald Reagan

372. “You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.”

— Ronald Reagan

373. “For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.”

— Ronald Reagan

374. “Our whole system of government is based on “We the people,” but if we the people don’t pay attention to what’s going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

376. “We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry every night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet.”

— Ronald Reagan

377. “There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.”

— Ronald Reagan

378. “History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

380. “Someone must stand up to those who say, “Here’s the key, there’s the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want.””

— Ronald Reagan

381. “Revolution means democracy in today’s world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism.”

— Ronald Reagan

382. “Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini’s success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say “But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.”

— Ronald Reagan

383. “Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.”

— Ronald Reagan

384. “What has happened to the dreams of the United Nations’ founders? What has happened to the spirit which created the United Nations? The answer is clear: Governments got in the way of the dreams of the people.”

— Ronald Reagan

385. “A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that’s true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.”

— Ronald Reagan

386. “The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.”

— Ronald Reagan

387. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

389. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

395. “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

396. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

398. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

400. “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