Ronald Reagan

"I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world comes from people who are too busy running their lives to stop and think."

"Concentrate on our responsibilities, because that's where our power is."

"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."

"The task before us is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees."

"I know in my heart that man is good, and we don't have to rake over the ashes of the past to find his goodness."

"How can a president not be an actor?"

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy is being carried out."

"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."

"The greatest achievements in human history have usually been accomplished by people working to better themselves."

"It's now impossible to make your way in the world without deciding what you believe in."

"One day we will awake and find that the only way to preserve freedom is to lose it."

"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."

"The greatest threat to peace is a person convinced he already has it."

"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."

"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the only political system that all citizens are created equal."

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

"Let's not take ourselves too seriously. No nation in history has survived a failure of nerve."

"An intellectual is someone who has been educated beyond his ability to think."

"Entrepreneurship is seeing opportunity where others see obstacles."

"There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for a friend."

"I am a fighter, and I will fight to the end."

"The greatest leader is not the one who hasn't failed, but the one who gets up after he falls."

"The only place you find success before work in the dictionary is the dictionary."

"We must act in the name of all those millions who believe in freedom as deeply as we do."

"I know we are eager to hear from you, but we have no evidence that we are still speaking the same language."

"The greatest progress has always come when man acts on his desires."

"History shows that when religious policy and state policy are mixed together, both suffer."

"Live simply so that others can simply live."

"The only basis for true tolerance is that we permit others to think differently than we do."

"Faith is the most important thing in my life, and I'll never change that."