Ronald Reagan Quotes

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America — none, whatsoever.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

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

Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.