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Ronald Reagan Quotes - Page 29

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No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

Crush, Rights, Government

Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation.

Memorial Day, Goal, Alliances

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

A nation's greatness is measured not just by its gross national product or military power, but by the strength of its devotion to the principles and values that bind its people and define their character.

Military, Character, Greatness

We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.

Funny, Night, Years

Ronald Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" Speech, www.reaganlibrary.gov. October 27, 1964.

Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first Pilgrims and pioneers. And as Americans wander through these forests, climb these mountains, they will sense the love and majesty of the Creator of all of that.

Children, Land, Parent

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

In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

Hollywood, Dinner, Ends

Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.

Country, War, Airplane

The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.

Differences, Diplomats, Administration

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

Prayer, School, America

Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.

Needs, Done, Lasts

First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

Honey, I forgot to duck

Ducks, Honey, Politician

1981 Said to his wife, Nancy, after being shot byJohn R Hinckley, Jr, 30 Mar. See Dempsey 261:86.

Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom. The second vision believes that religion is opium for the masses. It believes that eternal principles like truth, liberty, and democracy have no meaning beyond the whim of the state. And [Vladimir] Lenin spoke for them.

Believe, Blessed, Men

Source: www.visionandvalues.org

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

Dog, Mad, Goal

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

Choices, Special, Pork

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

When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.

People, Causes, Innocent

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

We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes.

Years, America, Judging

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

Government must not supersede the will of the people or the responsibilities of the people. The function of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Responsibility, Opportunity, Men

Ronald Reagan (1968). “The Creative Society: Some Comments on Problems Facing America”

If you think you can - you can!

Failure, Good Luck, Thinking

People don't start wars, governments do.

War, Patriotic, Government

Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

...I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law... the United States must institute comprehensive reforms that conform to the realities of the era in which we live.

Believe, Reality, Law

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

Noble, Helping, Tradition

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

There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

Government, Helping, Language

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

War, Noble, Causes

The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.

America, Purpose, Genius

The future belongs to the free.

Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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

Quotes: 1096

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