Ronald Reagan: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.”

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.

Well, that wasn't a proposal. That was a decision that has been made.

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

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