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Ronald Reagan Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“I don’t even mind that life made me wait so long to find you. The waiting only made the finding sweeter.”
— Ronald Reagan, I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan
Tagged: Love, Waiting, Cute Things to Say, Wedding Vows, Love Quotes For Her
“General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
— Ronald Reagan, “Tear Down This Wall”
Tagged: Berlin Wall, Communism, Iron Curtain
“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”
— Ronald Reagan
Tagged: Government, tyranny, Big Government, nanny state
“A taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take a civil-service exam.”
— Ronald Reagan
Tagged: taxpayer, Civil-Service Exam
“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
Tagged: Government, Baby, alimentary canal
“Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, you coast for a while, you have a hell of a closing.”
— Ronald Reagan, The Encarta Book of Quotations
Tagged: Politics, Show Business
“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
Tagged: Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, Communist, anti-communist
“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”
— Ronald Reagan, Remembering Ronald Reagan
Tagged: Wars, Deterrence
“I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.”
— Ronald Reagan
Tagged: Government, tyranny
“And I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers, 'Go ahead—make my day.’”
— Ronald Reagan, Reagan to tax raisers: 'Go ahead -- make my day'
Tagged: Make My Day, clint eastwood, Taxes
“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
— Ronald Reagan
Tagged: Liberals, ignorant, Dunning-Kruger
“We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.”
— Ronald Reagan
Tagged: Big Government, National Debt, taxing, Spending
“Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem.”
— Ronald Reagan, Veterans Day 2016 quotes and sayings: Inspirational thoughts on honoring America's heroes
Tagged: Veterans, Heros
“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 who are homeless, you might say, by choice.”
— Ronald Reagan
Tagged: Homelessness
“Win one for the Gipper!”
— George Gipp, Knute Rockne All American
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Gipper
“Facts are stupid things—stubborn things, I should say.”
— Ronald Reagan
Tagged: Facts, Stupid, Fake News
“Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.”
— Ronald Reagan
Tagged: Trees, Pollution
“Thanksgiving has become a day when Americans extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. Long before there was a government welfare program, this spirit of voluntary giving was ingrained in the American character. Americans have always understand that, truly, one must give in order to receive. This should be a day of giving as well as a day of thanks...Let us recommit ourselves to that devotion to God and family that has played such an important role in making this a great Nation, and which will be needed as a source of strength if we are to remain a great people.”
— Ronald Reagan, Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
Tagged: Thanksgiving, Welfare, God, nation, Family
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