Quotes from Ronald Reagan

From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

The first rule of a bureaucracy is to protect the bureaucracy. If the people running the welfare program had let their clientele find other ways of making a living, that would have reduced their importance and their budget.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. we did'nt pass it to our children in the bloodstream. it must be fought for, protected, and handed on to them to do the same; or, one day, we will spending our sunset years telling our children and our childrens children, what it was once like in the united states where men were free.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

It is up to us in our time to choose, and choose wisely, between the hard but necessary task of preserving peace and freedom, and the temptation to ignore our duty and blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger day by day.

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.