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Ronald Reagan Quotes about War

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Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Running, Peace, War

Ronald Reagan's Remarks at the National Conference of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, www.reaganfoundation.org. March 30, 1981.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

Strength, Peace, War

Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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

Love, Peace, War

If not us, who? And if not now, when?

War, Cold, Cold War

Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

War, Party, Cold

Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again.

War, Patriotic, Proud

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Peace, War, Rights

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Memorial Day, Military, War

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

War, Mean, Thinking

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

Military, War, Winning

An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk up to Reagan's desk and say, 'I don't like the way you are running the country.' Gorbachev replied, You can do the same thing in the Soviet Union. You can go into the Kremlin, walk up to my desk and say 'I don't like the way Reagan is running his country.'

Running, Country, War

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Courage, War, Patriotic

First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

Freedom, War, Rights

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

[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world.

War, Men, Omnipotence

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

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

War, Government, Years

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Presidential address: State of the Union, Monday, January 25, 1988”

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

War, Worry, Cold

Ronald Reagan (2009). “The Reagan Diaries”, p.4, Harper Collins

The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We Americans don't want war and we don't start fights. We don't maintain a strong military force to conquer or coerce others. The purpose of our military is simple and straightforward: we want to prevent war.

Strong, Military, War

"The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words".

We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

War, Government, Europe

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

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

War, America, Abiding

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

Military, War, Forgotten

Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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

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".

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

People do not make wars; governments do.

Peace, War, Government

Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Witty, War, Marijuana

"The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World" by Alan Greenspan, Penguin Press, Chapter 4, (p. 87), 2007.

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

Quotes: 1096

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