Ronald Reagan Quotes

I do not believe in a political strategy that does not have a moral foundation.

I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from politics.

Democracy or politics done without values and ideals is dangerous for the country.

I'm not ashamed of the things I believe and why I believe them.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

You're only as good as your values.

There must be a priority of values in all our lives.

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

The fact is, you never compromise on principles. If people on the far Left, they have a principle to stand by, they should never compromise; those of us on the Right should not either.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

What you believe, what you value, how you live, matters.

I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.

The Decalogue and the Golden Rule have no place in a political campaign. The commander who lost the battle through the activity of his moral nature would be the derision and jest of history.

She can talk beautifully about democracy. But she does not know how to live democracy

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

A movement without a vision is a movement without moral foundation.

It is not true that people of high principle are ill-suited for politics.

I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words.