Ronald Reagan

Bekannte Zitate von Ronald Reagan

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

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.

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

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

Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

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.

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

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.

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.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

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

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

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.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

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

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.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

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

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

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

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.

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.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

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'.

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

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

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.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

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

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

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

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

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

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

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

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

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