Ronald Reagan Quotes

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

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
- Ronald Reagan

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 always win out.
- Ronald Reagan

It’s true that hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
- Ronald Reagan

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
- Ronald Reagan

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

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
- Ronald Reagan

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

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

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.
- Ronald Reagan

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same
- Ronald Reagan

Don’t be afraid to see what you see
- Ronald Reagan

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

If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
- Ronald Reagan

I used to say that politics was the second-oldest profession. I have come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first.
- Ronald Reagan

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.
- Ronald Reagan

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project.
- Ronald Reagan

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

Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
- Ronald Reagan

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

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

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.
- Ronald Reagan

There is absolutely no circumstance whatever under which I would accept that spot
- Ronald Reagan