Ronald Reagan

"How do you know if you're a conservative? Ask yourself."

"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or material things, but a legacy of character and faith."

"The future doesn't belong to the lighthearted. It belongs to the brave."

"There is no greater good than the person sitting next to you."

"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."

"I notice that when the left quotes me they never quote me in context."

"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."

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

"I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."

"The greatest security for Israel is that it will not be a ghetto society."

"Peace comes through strength."

"I believe that faith is the most powerful force in the universe."

"God bless America."

"Today, we did not fire a shot yet, for the first time in 27 years."

"America has a rendezvous with destiny."

"The ship of state is the only ship that leaks from the top."

"Do the very best you can."

"I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left me."

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

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things."

"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."

"One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with each other on anything that I can think of."

"Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference in the world. But the Marines don't have that problem."

"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."

"I'm not smart enough to be a liberal."

"The greatest threat to our country is not communism; it is the total failure of the individual to stand up and take responsibility."

"I believe every American has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

"You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy."

"All the waste there is in government are in the offices of the bureaucrats."

"In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often miss the larger outlines of the Megastate system unfolding those two seemingly opposed forces project the same end result."