The 22 Greatest Ronald Reagan Quotes

09 Apr, 2016 by Jeff Reynolds

Print this article Font size -16+

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”

“If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.”

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

“I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.”

“I hope we once again have reminded people that 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: As government expands, liberty contracts.”

“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

“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.”

“Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.”

“We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.”

“I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.”

“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”

“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.”

“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver 5 minutes longer.”

“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

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

“Government is not a solution to our problem – government is the problem.”

“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”

“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”

“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’.”