Ronald Reagan Quotes on Leadership, Freedom and Success

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

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

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

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

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.

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

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

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

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

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

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.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

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.

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

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

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.