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Ronald Reagan Quotes - Page 14

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Going around this country, I have found a great hunger in America for spiritual revival; for a belief that law must be based on a higher law; for a return to traditions and values that we once had. Our government, in

Going around this country, I have found a great hunger in America for spiritual revival; for a belief that law must be based on a higher law; for a return to traditions and values that we once had. Our government, in its most sacred documents - the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and all - speak of man being created, of a Creator; that we're a nation under God.

Spiritual, Country, Men

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.

Lying, Presidential, Risk

A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

Peace, Jobs, War

This is not to say that the government should confiscate from the "haves" and bestow upon the "have-nots", beyond the requirements of a compassionate welfare program to provide for those who cannot provide for themselves. Far from it. But it is to say that our duty is to foster a strong, vibrant wealth-producing economy which operates in such a way that new additions to wealth accrue to those who presently have little or no ownership stake in their country.

Country, Strong, Government

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

Men, People, Way

A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day; for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.

Prayer, Believe, Grateful

First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave.

Marine, Keys, Light

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.

Doctors, Government, Sound

I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it.

Waiting, Attention, Leaks

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Motivational, God, Freedom

Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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

Witty, Men, Political

Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies — especially in this hemisphere. None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong.

Leadership, Strong, War

"Ronald Reagan".

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

Running, Self, Expression

Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

Government, Nuts, Political

Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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.

Education, Home, Responsibility

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.

Economy, Results, Spending

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

Thinking, Government, Custody

Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If we fail to select Godly leaders our destiny will surely be as that of the Roman Empire.

Godly, Destiny, Leader

We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

Government, Presidential, Special

Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.83, Humanix Books

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Realizing, Profession, Resemblance

By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.

Teamwork, Working Together, Building

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick - professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, "We the people," this breed called Americans.

Children, Party, Home

First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Money, Cat, Politics

Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the . . . West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

Running, Freedom, Home

Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

Compassion, Rights, Government

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

Born: February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004
Occupation: 40th U.S. President

Quotes: 1096

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