Latest Ronald Reagan Quotes from Interviews

• We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began here in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous.

  Ronald Reagan

  Technology, World, Revolution

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• If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

  Ronald Reagan

  Teach

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• I've often wondered about the shyness of some of us in the West about standing for these ideals that have done so much to ease the plight of man and the hardships of our imperfect world. Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible, but probable.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Age, Done

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

• We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous. There are threats now to our freedom, indeed to our very existence, that other generations could never even have imagined. There is first the threat of global war. No president, no Congress, no prime minister, no parliament can spend a day entirely free of this threat. If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Technology, President

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

• Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none - not one regime - has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

  Ronald Reagan

  Flower, Optimism, Risk

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• Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. Poland's struggle to be Poland and to secure the basic rights we often take for granted, demonstrates why we dare not take those rights for granted.

  Ronald Reagan

  Struggle, Today, Oppression

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• We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

  Ronald Reagan

  Optimism, Political, Enemy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Realizing, Profession, Resemblance

• ALEC has forged a unique partnership between state legislators and leaders from the corporate and business community. This partnership offers businessmen the extraordinary opportunity to apply their talents to solve America's problems and build on our opportunities.

  Ronald Reagan

  Unique, Opportunity, America

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom. The second vision believes that religion is opium for the masses. It believes that eternal principles like truth, liberty, and democracy have no meaning beyond the whim of the state. And [Vladimir] Lenin spoke for them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Blessed, Men

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

• What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

  Ronald Reagan

  People, Cuba, Communist

  "Cuban-Americans Mark The Passing Of Fidel Castro". "The Daily" with Steve Inskeep, nhpr.org. November 28, 2016.

• One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn't want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn't considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described.

  Ronald Reagan

  Girl, Country, Baby

  Source: www.npr.org

• There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, we have it in our power to begin the world over again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Character, Men, People

  1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 17 July 1980, Detroit, MI

• My philosophy and my belief was that there was a long way for us to go in improving what we had ever known before, that this country of ours was a country of constant improvement. And so I thought that, well, what my whole approach was based on the promise of a better America.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Philosophy, America

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