Ronald Reagan Peace Quotations

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Being free and prosperous in a world at peace. That's our ultimate goal.

It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.

I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

People do not make wars; governments do.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.