Explore Quotes by Ronald Reagan

My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best.

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.

If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected.

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

People don't start wars, governments do.

I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism.