Ronald Wilson Reagan Quotes
In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.
I'm not running for the presidency because I believe that I can solve the problems we've discussed tonight. I believe the people of this country can.
There isn't any problem we can't solve if government will give us the facts. Tell us what needs to be done. Then, get out of the way and let us have at it.
America represents something universal in the human spirit. I received a letter not long ago from a man who said, "You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won't become a German or a Turk." But then he added, "Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American."
What makes you think I'd be happy about that?
I think it's time we got mad and Mr. Gorbachev tried to get on our good side.
You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.
The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain communism, it will transcend communism. We will not bother to denounce it. We'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.
If communism is the wave of the future, why do you still need walls to keep people in and armies of secret police to keep them quiet?
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
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