Ronald Reagan: “We persevere, and in the end, freedom will triumph.”

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.

Let us remember that the Soviet preponderance in military power in Europe remains, an asymmetry that offends our Jeffersonian senses.

But there's nothing I can say that would make the situation right.

The pursuit of peace is, of course, always in season.