Ronald Reagan

Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.

Ronald Reagan

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

Ronald Reagan

Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got back, he wasn’t sure where he’d been. But most important of all, he did it on someone else’s money.

Ronald Reagan

Church and state are, and must remain, separate.

Ronald Reagan

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Ronald Reagan

Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Ronald Reagan

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty

Ronald Reagan

Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We’ve long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced – the budget and the liberals.

Ronald Reagan

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

Ronald Reagan

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Ronald Reagan