Ronald Reagan

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

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

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

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.

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

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

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.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can't even imagine a world without her - He loves her.

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

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

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