I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
How does it feel to be the 's third choice? Humiliating? You could have thrown a dart. That's how close they were.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“... Ending a conflict is not so simple, not just calling it off and coming home. Because the price for that kind… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war. It's to be prepared for peace. There's… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Americans are not going to tolerate intimidation, terror and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. And we are… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America - our country is in… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
On Father's Day, we pay tribute to all in our society who have taken on the responsibilitie s and joys of fatherhood. Whether our… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
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