We didn't want to cry wolf. But I don't think the public generally realizes the predicament we're in.


Ronald Whitehead

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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