Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

355. “There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.”

— Ronald Reagan

356. “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

357. “We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.”

— Ronald Reagan

358. “I doubt evolution is real.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

360. “With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.”

— Ronald Reagan

361. “Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.”

— Ronald Reagan

362. “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

363. “I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise – which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.”

— Ronald Reagan

364. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

367. “No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.”

— Ronald Reagan

368. “Our leaders must remember that education doesn’t begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn’t even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

370. “I remain California-bound.”

— Ronald Reagan

371. “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

372. “Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.”

— Ronald Reagan

373. “One picture is worth 1,000 denials.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

375. “There are simple answers to the nation’s problems, but not easy ones.”

— Ronald Reagan

376. “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

377. “Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation.”

— 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 know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.”

— Ronald Reagan

380. “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

381. “Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

384. “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

385. “Hayek is amongst the top 2-3 of the all the people who ever influenced me.”

— Ronald Reagan

386. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

388. “To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

392. “Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.”

— Ronald Reagan

393. “Poverty is a career for lot’s of well paid people.”

— Ronald Reagan

394. “The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

398. “Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana.”

— Ronald Reagan

399. “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

400. “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