Ronald Reagan Quotes

If you believe you are the city on the hill, the world's best hope, it is tempting also to believe that outside your boundaries are barbarians.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

He who governs by his moral excellence may be compared to the Pole star which abides in its place while all other stars bow towards it.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

I'm an idealist.

America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

We are here to make another world.

Your example should be stellar among your friends, associates, family, teachers, co-workers, and other Christians.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world

I think there are certain events that would be an amazing torch for a turn in how the world is getting on, and the Ryder Cup would be one of them that is like a shining light at the end of the tunnel.

Sometimes when you look at life really closely and you realise that things are not as smooth or as kind as they should be, then you create a world outside that matches up to your expectations or matches up to your beliefs. That's the kind of world both my brother and I have created for ourselves through stage and through entertainment.

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

Take a stand, America! You deserve better. Resolve to live life vibrantly by looking to family, faith, and freedom in this new year!

...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.

If I ruled the world Imagine that...

In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.