Quotes

“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.” Ronald Reagan

“Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.” Ronald Reagan

“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.” Ronald Reagan

“They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.” Ronald Reagan

“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.” Ronald Reagan

“I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.” Ronald Reagan

“No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.” Ronald Reagan

“We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.” Ronald Reagan

“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.” Ronald Reagan

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

“What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.” Ronald Reagan

“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.” Ronald Reagan

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

“Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.” Ronald Reagan

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” Ayn Rand

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” Ayn Rand

“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.” Ayn Rand

“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).” Ayn Rand

“Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.” Ayn Rand

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” Ayn Rand

“Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.” Ayn Rand

“It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.” Ayn Rand

“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” Ayn Rand

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.” Ayn Rand

“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” Ayn Rand

“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.” Ayn Rand

“To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'” Ayn Rand

“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” Ayn Rand

“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.” Ayn Rand

“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.” Ayn Rand