Ronald Reagan Quotes

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!

What stands if freedom fall?

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him.

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

Death is better than slavery.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.

I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

Let twelve good black men get armed for battle and they will kill and put to flight fifty whites.... Kill or be killed. Had you rather not be killed than be a slave to a tyrant who takes the life of your wife and children? It is no more harm to kill a man who is trying to kill you than to take a drink of water when you are thirsty.

Repression or oppression never yet succeeded in crushing the truth or redressing a wrong.

Our political life is closed, and our freedoms usurped, and our people are oppressed, and fearful… if you don’t say what the ruler wants, you’re exiled beyond the sun.

Protect the people from the oppression of dictatorships.

When a government takes over a people's economic life, it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute, it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs.

The limits of tyrants are proscribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.