Ronald Reagan: “I believe that if America remains firm and strong, we can usher in a new age of peace and freedom.”

I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

Tyranny fails. Freedom works.

The strength of our nation has never been with the Washington colony but with the American people.

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.