Ronald Reagan actually said...

I will soon send a message to the Congress asking your Senators and Representatives to join me in reforming the Defense Establishment.

Radio Address to the Nation on Defense Establishment Reforms

04/04/1986

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The leadership of men like Madison gave shape to a nation that would become the greatest the world has ever seen.

Those principles must be reaffirmed by every generation of Americans, for freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

We the people—and that is still the most powerful phrase—created government for our own convenience.

Let it be said of this generation of Americans that when we pass the torch of freedom onto the new generation, it was burning as brightly as...