Ronald Reagan

“If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.”

“Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Let us ask ourselves, 'What kind of people do we think we are?' And let us answer, 'Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.'”

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

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

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”

“The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.”

“Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.”

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”

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

“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.”

“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.”

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

“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.”

“No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.”