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Ronald Reagan Quotes About Life

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.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Ronald Reagan Quotes About Change

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

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

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

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

More Quotes by Ronald Reagan

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

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

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

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

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

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

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

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

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

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

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

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

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

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

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

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