Ronald Reagan actually said...

No, no. I'll tell you, we knew personally, Nancy and I, the gentleman out in California that did this for the Los Angeles Times.

Interview With Burl Osborne and Carl Leubsdorf of the Dallas Morning News

01/07/1985

More Ronald Reagan Quotes

no duty of the Federal Government is more important than the defense of this Republic.

Our institutions form an important epoch in the history of the civilized world.

Freedom is a way that is plain, peaceful, generous, just—a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bles...

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.