I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

Ronald Reagan was an excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad.