Ronald Wilson Reagan quotes and words of wisdom

"I couldn"t help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We"d] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together."
Found in the topic World.

"Trust, but verify."
Found in the topic Trust.

"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."
Found in the topic Communism.

"Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let?s not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources."
Found in the topic Air.

"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."
Found in the topic Abortion.

"You can tell a lot about a fellow"s character by his way of eating jelly beans."
Found in the topic Character.

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."
Found in the topic Power.

"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I?m in a cabinet meeting."
Found in the topic President.

"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man."
Found in the topic Inflation.

"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."
Found in the topic Freedom.

"The best view of government is in the rearview mirror as you"re driving away from it."
Found in the topic Government.

"The government is like a baby"s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."
Found in the topic Big.

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

"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."
Found in the topic Easy.

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

"There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder."
Found in the topic Growth.

"I"m spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years. Ronald Reagan during the opening ceremonies for the library that will house his white house papers."
Found in the topic Library.

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don"t interfere."
Found in the topic Best.

"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."
Found in the topic Past.

Interesting Quotes

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.Frank Crane

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.Martin Luther King