Top 500 Ronald Reagan Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

403. “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

404. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

406. “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

407. “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

408. “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

409. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

411. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

413. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

416. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

418. “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

419. “The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

421. “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

422. “Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

425. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

429. “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

430. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

433. “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

434. “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

435. “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

436. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

438. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

441. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

444. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

446. “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

447. “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

448. “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

449. “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

450. “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