Ronald Reagan Quotes

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. Ronald Reagan

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

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin. Ronald Reagan

People don’t start wars, governments do. 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

The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Ronald Reagan

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ Ronald Reagan

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist. Ronald Reagan

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere. Ronald Reagan

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life – the unborn – without diminishing the value of all human life. Ronald Reagan

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

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

The government doesn’t solve problems; it subsidizes them. Ronald Reagan

The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits of an issue – rather like a great, global town meeting. The emergence of blocks and the polarization of the United Nations undermine all that this organization initially valued. Ronald Reagan

What has happened to the dreams of the United Nations’ founders? What has happened to the spirit which created the United Nations? The answer is clear: Governments got in the way of the dreams of the people. Ronald Reagan

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US congress. Ronald Reagan

You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it to the wind. Ronald Reagan

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting. Ronald Reagan

America’s view of apartheid is simple and straightforward: We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more. Ronald Reagan

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