“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. ” 

“My parents constantly drummed into me the importance of judging people as individuals. There was no more grievous sin at our household than a racial slur or other evidence of religious or racial intolerance. A lot of it, I think, was because my dad had learned what discrimination was like firsthand. He’d grown up in an era when some stores still had signs at their door saying, NO DOGS OR IRISHMEN ALLOWED. When my brother and I were growing up, there were still ugly tumors of racial bigotry in much of America, including the corner of Illinois where we lived. At our one local movie theater, blacks and whites had to sit apart—the blacks in the balcony. My mother and father urged my brother and me to bring home our black playmates, to consider them equals, and to respect the religious views of our friends, whatever they were. My brother’s best friend was black, and when they went to the movies, Neil sat with him in the balcony. My mother always taught us: “Treat thy neighbor as you would want your neighbor to treat you,” and “Judge everyone by how they act, not what they are.” Once my father checked into a hotel during a shoe-selling trip and a clerk told him: “You’ll like it here, Mr. Reagan, we don’t permit a Jew in the place.” My father, who told us the story later, said he looked at the clerk angrily and picked up his suitcase and left. “I’m a Catholic,” he said. “If it’s come to the point where you won’t take Jews, then some day you won’t take me either.” Because it was the only hotel in town, he spent the night in his car during a winter blizzard and I think it may have led to his first heart attack.”

“Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem.”

“It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what "America" means.”

“Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.”

“Jefferson repeatedly said that the best government was the smallest government, that “governments are not the masters of the people, but the servants of the people governed.”

“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.”

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

“I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.”

“Great things can be accomplished, when it doesnt matter who gets the credit.”

“A people free to choose will always choose peace. ”

“We are a Nation Under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone UNDER"

“There probably isn’t any undertaking on earth short of assuring the national security that can’t be handled more efficiently by the forces of private enterprise than by the federal government.”

“Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.”

“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”