Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.

— Ronald Reagan

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

— Ronald Reagan

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.

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

— Ronald Reagan

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

— Ronald Reagan

I don't believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

— Ronald Reagan

If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms.

— Ronald Reagan

If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".

— Ronald Reagan

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

— Ronald Reagan