Ronald Reagan Quotes

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

I believe in peace through strength. I would prefer to rely on the military rather than diplomats to protect our homes.

The American people like a President who is for peace, but they also want to know that he is ready to kill.

I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

...to let the military direct the entire process...is so dangerous that it must be resisted at all costs.

It is not important what the other side says or means. What is important are the military capabilities of the other side.

The Russian Leadership Came to the conclusian that Western Expansion could only be reversed with an "iron fist".

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

I don't think anyone would disagree with the conclusion that Saddam [Hussein] was a terrible dictator. He had gassed his own people and his neighbors. He had killed thousands of people, and he had started a couple of wars and destroyed his country.

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.

Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?