Ronald Reagan Quotes

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America and our armed forces and our coalition forces are giving them the opportunity to do.

I want to live.

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

Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.

Our country is where ever we are well off.

A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.

Hope survives best at the hearth.

So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.

We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We don't know enough to give up. We only know enough to know that we have to try to change the course of human events.

I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin to bore through the soil, making a passage to the surface so that I can penetrate the crust and issue into the light. It's hard work boring through the entire earth, but I'm able to be patient because I have a strong premonition that as soon as I do issue into the light I shall become a butterfly.

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.

The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

I have fallen short in my life, but my faith has always brought me home.

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.

There's a way out of any cage, and I'll find it!