Ronald Reagan: “History has taught us that you can bulldoze a church, but you can't extinguish all that is good in every human heart.”

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.

I'm sure they'll—as we will—they'll take it for what it is.

I am delighted that later today I'll have the opportunity to welcome President Gorbachev to the United States and extend to him the hospitality and good wishes of the American people.