Ronald Reagan

"Whatever else history may say about me, I hope it will record that I never lost faith."

"The greatest duty we have is to pass on to our children a stronger, freer America."

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."

"I believe deeply that we must discover in our time what those in the next century will recognize as basic human decency."

"The greatest days of this nation are yet to come."

"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody."

"My father was a storyteller, and I learned from him the power of words."

"The most important thing is not to give in to despair, but to keep moving forward."

"I have always thought that what defines us as Americans is not our power, but our purpose."

"We are bound together by a common heritage and a common destiny."

"Peace through strength is not a slogan; it is a strategy."

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."

"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker."

"The problem with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."

"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."

"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress."

"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it hasn't tried to contact us."

"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."

"No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free people."

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

"It's not that liberals aren't smart; it's just that so much of what they know isn't true."

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."

"A person is smart. People are dumb."

"I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism."

"To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge, and to do the will of God is the greatest achievement."

"We are never defeated unless we give up on God."

"The greatest threat to our future is not something that will happen to us; it is something we will refuse to see."