Ronald Reagan Quotes

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

With it we can create our own destiny. It’s a sovereignty issue. It’s our land, and we’ll do what we want with it.

Washing dishes gave me the sense of empowerment and feeling that I control my destiny.

When you have your own bus, then you have dignity. When you have your own school, you have dignity. When you have your own country, you have dignity.When you have something of your own, you have dignity. But whenever you are begging for a chance to participate in that which belongs to someone else, or use that which belongs to someone else, on an equal basis with the owner, that's not dignity. That's ignorance.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

I'm for economic independence.

Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

Independence is happiness.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country.

We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

I am not a magician. I believe that it is the Indians who have got to find out a solution. You cannot expect the British to solve all your problems.

I hope we shall never be disposed to offer to join the United States. They will display a great reluctance to take us but I believe we have a future of our own here.