Ronald Reagan

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

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

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

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

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

There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones.

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond. Where others seek to throw up barriers, we seek to bring them down; where others take counsel of their fears, we follow our hopes.

Isn't it interesting that all of those people who support the choice of abortion have already been born?

Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism

Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.

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

The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.

The real question today is not when human life begins, but, what is the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law - the same right we have.