Ronald Reagan: “The public doesn't want a tax increase.”

These unilateral reductions would, however, give a long-awaited encouragement for our efforts to achieve the genuine balance in conventional forces that would assure greater security and stability in Europe.

We must remain strong and free of illusion.

Well, that wasn't a proposal. That was a decision that has been made.

We have not come this far through lack of strength or any weakness in our resolve, nor has there been anything inevitable about what we've achieved.