There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.
Ronald ReaganSome people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald ReaganOne of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine....If you don't do this, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was like in American when men were free.
Ronald ReaganUntil now has there ever been a time in which so many of the prophecies are coming together? There have been times in the past when people thought the end of the world was coming, and so forth, but never anything like this.
Ronald ReaganOnly our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.
Ronald ReaganWe are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock to some of the placard painters in our modern demonstrations. The lesson of Vietnam, I think, should be that never again will young Americans be asked to fight and possibly die for a cause unless that cause is so meaningful that we, as a nation, pledge our full resources to achieve victory as quickly as possible.
Ronald Reagan