Ronald Reagan Quotes

"Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience,...without God democracy will not and cannot long endure."

"without God, there is no virtue because there's no prompting of the conscience. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."

"Our Constitution is to be celebrated not for being old, but for being young."

"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing. (October 27, 1964)"

"Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act."

"Summer's here, temperatures are rising and tempers will really rise if Congress doesn't pass an energy bill,"

"Common sense told us that when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. So we cut the people's tax rates, and the people produced more than ever before."

"When you see all of the smoke billowing up from the Democrats, ladies and gentlemen, I'd follow the advice of their nominee: Don't Inhale ."

"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?"

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

"The march of freedom and democracy . . . will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people."

"Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating."

"Most of my dreams came true."

"Most of my dreams came true. (told to biographer Lou Cannon in 1991)"

"We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. (January 20, 1981)"

"You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly."

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

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

"I believe with all my heart that standing up for America means standing up for the God who has so blessed our land. We need God's help to guide our nation through stormy seas. But we can't expect Him to protect America in a crisis if we just leave Him over on the shelf in our day-to-day living."

"We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were."