Inspiring Quotes by Ronald Reagan - Page 2

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

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

"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas"

"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them"

"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets"

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes"

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone"

"We are never defeated unless we give up on God"

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

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

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

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

"Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure"

"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts"

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

"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice"

"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world"

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

"You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed"

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

"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"

"Man is not free unless government is limited"

"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'"

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

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

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

"The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job"

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

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

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

"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer"

"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them"

"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"

"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives"

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

"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete"

"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith"

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

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

"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement"

"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"

"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"

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

"Don't be afraid to see what you see"

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