Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

403. “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

404. “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

405. “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

406. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

408. “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

409. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

412. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

414. “Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”

— Ronald Reagan

415. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

417. “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

418. “Worst wheel on the wagon makes the most noise.”

— Ronald Reagan

419. “We are a Nation Under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone UNDER”.”

— Ronald Reagan

420. “For years, I’ve heard the question: “How could an actor be president?” I’ve sometimes wondered how you could be president and not be an actor.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

425. “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

426. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

429. “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

430. “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

431. “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

432. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

435. “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

436. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

442. “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

443. “I more than love you, I’m not whole without you. You are life itself to me. When you are gone I’m waiting for you to return so I can start living again.”

— Ronald Reagan

444. “We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America’s classrooms in the first place.”

— Ronald Reagan

445. “Human beings are not animals, and I do not want to see sex and sexual differences treated as casually and amorally as dogs and other beasts treat them. I believe this could happen under the ERA.”

— Ronald Reagan

446. “For the people of Israel and America are historic partners in the global quest for human dignity and freedom. We will always remain at each other’s side.”

— Ronald Reagan

447. “Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

450. “The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people’s democracy. It’s the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.”

— Ronald Reagan