Ronald Reagan quotes

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
Ronald Reagan

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
Ronald Reagan

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States
does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to
deter and defend against aggression - to preserve freedom and peace.
Ronald Reagan

Approximately 80 percent of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by
vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from
man-made sources.
Ronald Reagan

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
Ronald Reagan

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a
trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
Ronald Reagan

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when
we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald Reagan

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
Ronald Reagan

Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our
obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members
of humanity.
Ronald Reagan

Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But,
the Marines don't have that problem.
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Government is not a solution to our problem; government is the problem.
Ronald Reagan

This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you
now to put aside any feelings of frustration or helplessness about our political institutions and
join me in this dramatic but responsible plan to reduce the enormous burden of Federal
taxation on you and your family.
Ronald Reagan

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had
run them through the US Congress.
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Regrettably, we live at a time when some persons do not value all human life. They want to
pick and choose which individuals have value.
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There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to
our progress except those we ourselves erect.
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There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human
capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to
turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means
of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
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I'm not smart enough to lie.
Ronald Reagan

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited.
There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As
government expands, liberty contracts.
Ronald Reagan

In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing
me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I
will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I
now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America
there will always be a bright dawn ahead. Thank you, my friends. May God always bless you.
Ronald Reagan