Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan 40th president of US (1911 - 2004)


Ronald Reagan -
- Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

Ronald Reagan -
- The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.

Ronald Reagan -
- To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will.

Ronald Reagan -
- Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

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

Ronald Reagan -
- There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Ronald Reagan -
- All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Ronald Reagan - Nov. 5, 1994
- 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.

Ronald Reagan -
- Facts are stupid things.

Ronald Reagan -
- Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Ronald Reagan -
- There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

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

Ronald Reagan - Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
- My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Ronald Reagan -
- Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Ronald Reagan - Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
- History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan -
- Where would this country be without this great land of ours?

Ronald Reagan -
- I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there?s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Ronald Reagan -
- The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.

Ronald Reagan -
- Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan -
- 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.