Reagan Quotes

Reagan Quotes

September 7, 2010


Let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your President. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future.
- Ronald Reagan


Life is just one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
- Ronald Reagan


Man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: A government expands, liberty contracts.
- Ronald Reagan


No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price of freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than the living Americans-the Americans living in this land today.
- Ronald Reagan


Our traditional two-party system has become a three-party system-Republicans, McGovern, and Democrat.
- Ronald Reagan


Some may try and tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning, and every sunset is merely the latest milestone on a voyage that never ends.
- Ronald Reagan


Some of my critics over the years have said that I became president because I was an actor who knew how to give a good speech. I suppose that's not too far wrong. Because an actor knows two important things-to be honest in what he's doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either. My actor's instinct simply told me to speak the truth as I saw it and felt it.
- Ronald Regan


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


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