Ronald Reagan actually said...

The years ahead are great ones for this country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization.

I hope when you leave this campus that you will do so with a feeling of obligation to your alma mater.

Don't let today's doom criers and cynics persuade you that the best is past, that from here on it's all downhill.

When great causes are on the move in the world . . . we learn we are spirits, not animals, and that something is going on in space and time,...