You know, if Nancy Davis hadn't come along when she did, I would have lost my soul. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It doesn't do any good to hold the door open for someone if they don't have a way to walk through it.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It would seem that not only is religion lacking in the schools - so is common sense. I wonder what a teacher… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Supporters of this fundamental change in immigration policy say we need to import more well-educated talent if we're to stay competitive. But… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think, too, that we've got to recognize that where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Great nations which fail to meet their responsibilities are consigned to the dustbin of history. We grew from that small, weak republic… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If you owe the bank $10,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $10,000,000 they have a problem. After all… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine…If you don't do this, one of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - 'Thou shalt not, unless… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while… — 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
Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization:… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
