America Quote by Ronald Reagan Download Open image “Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.” — Ronald Reagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Passive Today
People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as… — Mark Hertsgaard Copy Share Image
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action -… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago — Tommy Franks 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
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image