Ronald Reagan Quotes

If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business.

Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem.

I didn’t desert the Democratic party; the Democratic party deserted me.

We’ve heard a great deal about Republican “fat cats,” and how the Republicans are the party of big contributions. 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.”

The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems, that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities. My fellow […]

Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in family and faith.

We are a nation that has a government – not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people’s democracy. It’s the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.

I don’t pay much attention to critics. The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who can, and those who criticize.

I am going to talk of controversial things. I make no apology for this.