POTUS Quotes - Ronald Reagan

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

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

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

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

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

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

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

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

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

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child

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

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

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.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

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

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

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

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

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.