Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
— Ronald Reagan
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.
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.
Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other side of the line, the Soviet forces also face east to prevent their people from leaving.
Poland is not East or West. 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.
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Man is not free unless government is limited.
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
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'.
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: 'This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.' Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.
The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.
Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.
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.
Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.
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 objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities - which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.
Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.
You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.
The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.
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.
Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
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.
Don't be afraid to see what you see.
The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
