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Ronald Reagan Quotes - Page 15

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

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

Opportunity, Government, Productivity

First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

United States, World, Economic

Ronald Reagan (2004). “The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.3, NewsMax Media, Inc.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

Government, Forever, Kind

Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'

Cat, Fog, Feet

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

Government, Democracy, Breaking Down

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

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Men, Scary, Muggers

Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life.

Cancer, Two, White

Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.

Suicide, Gun, Average

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

Children, Sole, Chosen

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Ronald Reagan”

America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

Jobs, Opportunity, America

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

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Virtue, Economics, Budgets

Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary.

Children, Abortion, Understanding

"Ronald Reagan".

We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much.

Government, Years, Too Much

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

Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.

Country, Character, Mean

Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

Kids, Poverty, Bobby Kennedy

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

Evil, Presidential, Focus

Ronald Reagan's Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, www.reaganlibrary.gov. March 8, 1983.

We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

War, Years, Europe

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

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Inspirational Life, Purpose, Emptiness

Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.

Mean, Views, People

Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, Humanix Books

Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.

Gun, Thinking, Gun Control

"Ronald Reagan".

I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.

Believe, Character, America

Address to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, delivered 30 January 1984, Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

The Federal Reserve is answerable to no one.

Federal Reserve, Reserves

We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

Optimism, Political, Enemy

Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.

God, Father, Keys

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind - too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.

Freedom, Hatred, Liberty

Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, delivered 12 June 1987, West Berlin

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

Quotes: 1096

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