3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan 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.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan 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.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan 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.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan 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.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan 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.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan 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.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan 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.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan 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.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan 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.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan 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.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan 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.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
