It's a triumph for the biracial South,
CHARLES REAGAN I think that (Myers) will help increase the visibility of the institute.
CHARLES REAGAN I think that what happened at Ole Miss 40 years ago can be a burden. But it should also be a respons...
CHARLES REAGAN This is a society that puts a great stress on etiquette, manners and performing roles. Even in the m...
CHARLES REAGAN People in, say, Georgia aren't sitting on the front porches singing anymore. They're inside in the a...
CHARLES REAGAN WILSON The Southern pattern was that every farm or plantation would have their family cemetery.
CHARLES REAGAN WILSON It's a triumph for the biracial South.
CHARLES REAGAN WILSON It must be something deep in our DNA. Even though the South has changed so much, it's still passed o...
CHARLES REAGAN WILSON I think that what happened at Ole Miss 40 years ago can be a burden. But it should also be a respons...
CHARLES REAGAN WILSON This is a society that puts a great stress on etiquette, manners and performing roles. Even in the m...
CHARLES REAGAN WILSON The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting ...
RONALD REAGAN We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up ...
RONALD REAGAN Let us ask ourselves, 'What kind of people do we think we are?' And let us answer, 'Free...
RONALD REAGAN Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a ...
RONALD REAGAN The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of...
RONALD REAGAN Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy'...
RONALD REAGAN Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mig...
RONALD REAGAN You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.
RONALD REAGAN Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can't even imagine a wor...
RONALD REAGAN People do not make wars; governments do.
RONALD REAGAN It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't ...
RONALD REAGAN No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ...
RONALD REAGAN Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very ...
RONALD REAGAN The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.
RONALD REAGAN Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.
RONALD REAGAN Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
RONALD REAGAN To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of pre...
RONALD REAGAN If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, India...
RONALD REAGAN The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
RONALD REAGAN We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it...
RONALD REAGAN One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
RONALD REAGAN No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
RONALD REAGAN You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economi...
RONALD REAGAN Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
RONALD REAGAN Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
RONALD REAGAN The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take ...
RONALD REAGAN A people free to choose will always choose peace.
RONALD REAGAN I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
RONALD REAGAN Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the governm...
RONALD REAGAN I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them thro...
RONALD REAGAN We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutel...
RONALD REAGAN We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
RONALD REAGAN A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
RONALD REAGAN My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then wo...
RONALD REAGAN I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: 'This wall wil...
RONALD REAGAN For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free t...
RONALD REAGAN Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other s...
RONALD REAGAN Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
RONALD REAGAN It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has...
RONALD REAGAN If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party...
RONALD REAGAN Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
RONALD REAGAN They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
RONALD REAGAN I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Dem...
RONALD REAGAN It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we ...
RONALD REAGAN How can a president not be an actor?
RONALD REAGAN Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
RONALD REAGAN One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
RONALD REAGAN Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
RONALD REAGAN Don't be afraid to see what you see.
RONALD REAGAN No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never dis...
RONALD REAGAN The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
RONALD REAGAN Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works....
RONALD REAGAN Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everyth...
RONALD REAGAN The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the sy...
RONALD REAGAN The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know ...
RONALD REAGAN I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
RONALD REAGAN Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
RONALD REAGAN We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
RONALD REAGAN Facts are stubborn things.
RONALD REAGAN Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
RONALD REAGAN I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there...
RONALD REAGAN Man is not free unless government is limited.
RONALD REAGAN Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever dev...
RONALD REAGAN Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
RONALD REAGAN Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
RONALD REAGAN We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be f...
RONALD REAGAN All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
RONALD REAGAN To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the cr...
RONALD REAGAN Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
RONALD REAGAN Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as ...
RONALD REAGAN How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an...
RONALD REAGAN Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
RONALD REAGAN You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consi...
RON REAGAN Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
RONALD REAGAN I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn thei...
RONALD REAGAN I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
NANCY REAGAN I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
NANCY REAGAN I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
NANCY REAGAN The movies were custard compared to politics.
NANCY REAGAN You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is differ...
NANCY REAGAN With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at t...
NANCY REAGAN I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
NANCY REAGAN I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryo...
NANCY REAGAN It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
NANCY REAGAN There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elec...
NANCY REAGAN As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
NANCY REAGAN My life really began when I married my husband.
NANCY REAGAN Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists...
NANCY REAGAN I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortio...
NANCY REAGAN I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
NANCY REAGAN Just say no to drugs!
NANCY REAGAN You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all her...
NANCY REAGAN Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
NANCY REAGAN Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that...
RONALD REAGAN There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know...
RONALD REAGAN Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizen...
RONALS REAGAN Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?
RONALD REAGAN In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I...
RONALD REAGAN So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride...
RONALD REAGAN History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep t...
RONALD REAGAN A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
NANCY REAGAN If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.I've o...
RONALD REAGAN It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
RONALD REAGAN To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the cr...
RONALD REAGAN Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself, y...
RONALD REAGAN We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the peo...
RONALD REAGAN It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't availabl...
RONALD REAGAN Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is t...
RONALD REAGAN Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthri...
RONALD REAGAN Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in.
RONALD REAGAN I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my fri...
NANCY REAGAN There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
RONALD REAGAN We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.
MAUREEN REAGAN Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must...
RONALD REAGAN Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
RONALD REAGAN What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've ...
RONALD REAGAN While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
RONALD REAGAN Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
RONALD REAGAN I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
NANCY REAGAN Someplace along the line the audience discovered you. In my case it was playing the Gipper.
RONALD REAGAN If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, India...
RONALD REAGAN We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the G...
RONALD REAGAN Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...
RONALD REAGAN Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
RONALD REAGAN If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
RONALD REAGAN We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which shar...
RONALD REAGAN I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of...
MAUREEN REAGAN Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
RONALD REAGAN Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
RONALD REAGAN The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
RONALD REAGAN My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then wo...
RONALD REAGAN I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed i...
RONALD REAGAN We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conc...
RONALD REAGAN I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. N...
RONALD REAGAN Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not...
RONALD REAGAN Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wa...
RONALD REAGAN More than 20 years ago, President Kennedy defined an approach that is as valid today as when he anno...
RONALD REAGAN No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never dis...
RONALD REAGAN Honey, I forgot to duck.
RONALD REAGAN You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the ...
RONALD REAGAN You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a...
RONALD REAGAN We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely in...
RONALD REAGAN We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker...
RONALD REAGAN No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
RONALD REAGAN I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these ...
RONALD REAGAN We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.
RONALD REAGAN Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you ...
RONALD REAGAN My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then wo...
RONALD REAGAN Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself ...
RONALD REAGAN Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a ve...
RONALD REAGAN No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage ...
RONALD REAGAN We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be...
RONALD REAGAN We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit ov...
RONALD REAGAN Limits exist only in the mind
RONALD REAGAN Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...
RONALD REAGAN You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
RONALD REAGAN The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.
RONALD REAGAN Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines do...
RONALD REAGAN Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a ver...
RONALD REAGAN A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water
NANCY REAGAN A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with...
RONALD REAGAN I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of...
MAUREEN REAGAN The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civ...
RONALD REAGAN Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.
RONALD REAGAN The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them right away.
RONALD REAGAN History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
RONALD REAGAN Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working to...
NANCY REAGAN When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You k...
NANCY REAGAN We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
RONALD REAGAN Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
RONALD REAGAN We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbre...
RONALD REAGAN All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
RONALD REAGAN Trust, but verify.
RONALD REAGAN There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimu...
NANCY REAGAN You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
RONALD REAGAN I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted t...
NANCY REAGAN I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
NANCY REAGAN Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
RONALD REAGAN Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself yo...
RONALD REAGAN We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.
RON REAGAN There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, ...
RONALD REAGAN Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it....
RONALD REAGAN Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
RONALD REAGAN If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
RONALD REAGAN If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
RONALD REAGAN Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
RONALD REAGAN But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high scho...
RONALD REAGAN It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
RONALD REAGAN Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
RONALD REAGAN Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
RONALD REAGAN