Ronald Reagan Quotes

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'.
Ronald Reagan

Money, Understand, Why

Trust, but verify.
Ronald Reagan

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan

Someone, Tell, Communist

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

Government, End, Big

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

Friends, Trouble, Ignorant

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Ronald Reagan

Tough, Air, Standards

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.
Ronald Reagan

Faith, Time, Everything

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
Ronald Reagan

Faith, God, Give

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
Ronald Reagan

Someone, Last, Eat

A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan

Peace, Free, Choose

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Ronald Reagan

God, Long, Democracy

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

Funny, Before, Questions

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

Government, Democracy, Worth

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

Far, Purpose, Possible

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

Life, Music, Start

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
Ronald Reagan

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

Work, Government, Someone

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

Government, Best, Business

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.
Ronald Reagan

Life, Work, Mind

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
Ronald Reagan

Might, Rule, Lived

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
Ronald Reagan

Money, Government, Whatever

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan

School, After, Secret

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.
Ronald Reagan

Best, Yourself, Long

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Ronald Reagan

Mind, Human, Around

Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.
Ronald Reagan

Republican, Latinos

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: February 6, 1911

Died: June 5, 2004

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