Ronald Reagan

There is no more essential ingredient than a free, strong, and independent press to our continued success.

To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

Someone once said that heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh—that is to say, fear.

I'm optimistic that we will be extending the benefits of the program to virtually all the beneficiaries by the first of next year.

I do hereby proclaim the week beginning October 2, 1983, as Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week.

This program will train, as you've been told, more than a million people a year for permanent, self-sustaining employment.

We're not going backward. We're heading forward toward the future.

That's what the Caribbean Basin Initiative is all about.

Aid levels to the Caribbean Basin have doubled since 1980.

It represents genuine opportunity, not temporary balm to a liberal conscience.

Together we can be a mighty force for good.

This award represents the triumph of moral force over brute force.

Richard H. Jones has the experience and dedication we need on the Advisory Board of the National Air and Space Museum.

The real revolution lives in the principle that government must rest on the consent of the governed.

America is regaining her confidence.

The diversity of our democracies is a source of strength, not weakness.

Only through productivity gains can real living standards be improved.

A strength of both of our peoples is that we also look to the future.

A productive society lives within its means and does not pursue a pattern in its spending habits that results in simply shifting its burdens forward to the future.

The contributions of German Americans have been invaluable to the development of our great country.

We cherish your friendship.

I recommend that the Senate act favorably at an early date on this Amendment.

Your life is a monument to the shared values and interests that have long provided our two peoples with a bounty of good will.

To President Carstens and to the friendship that your visit represents.