Ronald Reagan: I'm spending more time at this library in four days tha...

Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

Ronald Reagan

bobby-kennedy poverty kids

If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price.

Ronald Reagan

land men years

Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.

Ronald Reagan

taxation dollars country

By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society. We believed then and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

Ronald Reagan

dream men war

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

Ronald Reagan

prayer america school

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

Ronald Reagan

forgiving may sometimes

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

Ronald Reagan

abiding war america

The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

Ronald Reagan

columbia ears loss

I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others. Referring to one of the oldest and loveliest groves of redwoods, showing insensitivity to their magnificence.

Ronald Reagan

tree littles beautiful

If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business

Ronald Reagan

marijuana adults business

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. And get a massage - you look really stressed

Ronald Reagan

stressed wall tears

We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

Ronald Reagan

nuclear one-day earth

Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt.

Ronald Reagan

women kissing doubt

I'm convinced, more than ever, that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man.

Ronald Reagan

liberation fellow-man men

I notice that everbody who is Pro-Abortion already has been born.

Ronald Reagan

pro-abortion abortion born

We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow

Ronald Reagan

tomorrow today order

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

Ronald Reagan

communicators great-things

When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale.

Ronald Reagan

democrat gentleman example

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

Ronald Reagan

records betrayed hero

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)

Ronald Reagan

moscow running thinking

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.