Ronald Reagan Quotes

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

Ordinary Chinese can actually make choices about their own lives which wasn’t possible 25 years ago.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

We are here to make another world.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

Liberty is the breath of progress.

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

Social change comes through people.

If you are living in a free society then use the freedom. What good is freedom if you do not use it.

Social change without music would be void of soul. Nonviolence without music, meditation, action, and a willingness to take risks probably doesn't exist.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

We will take up the ball of the Revolution where our fathers stopped it and roll it to the final consummation of freedom and independence for the masses.

The only weapon I have is my microphone and my unmistakable faith as a militant for change, veritable change.”

Don't ask f'r rights. Take thim. An' don't let anny wan give thim to ye. A right that is handed to ye fer nawthin has somethin the matter with it.

Democracy is the least static form of society. Its basis is reason not authority.