Ronald Reagan

It doesn’t do any good to hold the door open for someone if they don’t have a way to walk through it. And if they do have a way to pass through it then you probably don’t need to hold it open because they can open it for themselves.

Ronald Reagan

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

Ronald Reagan

It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll see on this earth.

Ronald Reagan

It is true that I opposed quotas in employment, education, and other areas. I consider quotas, whether they favor blacks or whites, men or women, to be a new form of discrimination as bad as the old ones.

Ronald Reagan

It is up to us in our time to choose, and choose wisely, between the hard but necessary task of preserving peace and freedom, and the temptation to ignore our duty and blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger day by day.

Ronald Reagan

It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.

Ronald Reagan

It should be clear to everyone that the nation’s steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy.

Ronald Reagan

It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.

Ronald Reagan

It’s all part of taking a chance and expanding man’s horizons. The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Ronald Reagan