Ronald Reagan actually said...

Our aim is to prevent, not to provoke, wider conflict, to save the many lives that further conflict would cost us.

Remarks at a Memorial Service for Crewmembers of the U.S.S. Stark in Jacksonville, Florida

05/21/1987

More Ronald Reagan Quotes

Will you vote to elect Don Knabe and Curt Pringle to the State legislature?

Well, we took the other party over, and it's now the party of Harry Truman and F.D.R.

Today we celebrate victory in the name of a right as old as the Union itself.

We've been doing everything we can do in the interest of our hostages.