Ronald Reagan

The first obligation of a government is to protect the people, not to direct their lives.

Facts are stupid things.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

The government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

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. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

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.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

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.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

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'.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Trust, but verify.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

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.

Facts are stubborn things.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.