80 Ronald Reagan Quotes on Leadership, Freedom, and Success
October 9, 2023
Best Ronald Reagan Quotes to inspire you to live your best life possible. Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. Explore some of Best Ronald Reagan quotes and sayings on this post.
“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.” – Ronald Reagan
“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.” – Ronald Reagan
“Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” – Ronald Reagan
“We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” – Ronald Reagan
“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” – Ronald Reagan
“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.” – Ronald Reagan
“If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.” – Ronald Reagan
“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.” – Ronald Reagan
“You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.” – Ronald Reagan
“The future doesn’t belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.” – Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan Quotes On Leadership
“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.” – 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.” – Ronald Reagan
“I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.” – Ronald Reagan
“I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.” – Ronald Reagan
“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.” – Ronald Reagan
“Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.” – Ronald Reagan
“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.” – Ronald Reagan
“There are no such things as limits to growth because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” – Ronald Reagan
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” – Ronald Reagan
“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination,and wonder.” – Ronald Reagan
“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.” – Ronald Reagan
“As government expands, liberty contracts.” – Ronald Reagan
“When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.” – Ronald Reagan
“We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.” – Ronald Reagan
“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.” – Ronald Reagan
“While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.” – Ronald Reagan
“Christmas can be celebrated in the schoolroom with pine trees, tinsel, and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.” – Ronald Reagan
“Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.” – Ronald Reagan
“The future doesn’t belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.” – Ronald Reagan
“I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.” – Ronald Reagan
“How can we love our country and not love our countrymen; and loving them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they’re sick, and provide an opportunity to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory?”- Ronald Reagan
“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
“Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.” – Ronald Reagan
“I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.” – Ronald Reagan
“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives” – Ronald Reagan
“Sometimes when I’m faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there’s a cook.” – Ronald Reagan
“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
“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, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” – Ronald Reagan
“I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.” – Ronald Reagan
“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
“A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.” – Ronald Reagan
“I’ve always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.” – Ronald Reagan
“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver 5 minutes longer.” – Ronald Reagan
“I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?” – Ronald Reagan
“Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet.” – 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.”
“Life is one grand sweet song so start the music”
“Status quo, you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in.”
“If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.”
“Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem.”
“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”
“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.”
“If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms.”
“Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.”
“Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won’t come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and goodwill among free people will carry the day.”
“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited.”
“The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.”
“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”
“I have left orders to be awakened at any time during a national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.”
“To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.”
“I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.”
“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”
“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.”
“Just think how happy you’d be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.”
“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.”
“Harry Truman once said: “Find me a one-armed economist, because everyone I know always says, ‘Well, on the other hand…”
“Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”
“Preparing for the future must begin, as always, with our children. We need to set for the new and more rigorous goals.”
“Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way”
“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’.”
“A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.”
“Here’s my formula: I usually start with a joke or story to catch the audience’s attention; then I tell them what I am going to tell them, I tell them, and then I tell them what I just told them.”
“Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.”
“I’ve always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.”
“History is made by men and women of vision and courage. Tonight freedom is on the march.”
“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.”
“Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive”
“The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.”
“Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.”
“Since I came to the White House, I’ve gotten two hearing aids, had a colon operation, a prostate operation, skin cancer, and I’ve been shot…damn thing is, I’ve never felt better.”
“Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.”
“More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will someday pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected.”
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