Quotes

Reagan on Democracy

“But the ungodly force called tyranny still cannot rid the human soul of its freedom, no matter how hard it may try.”

November 10, 1988

“But the ungodly force called tyranny still cannot rid the human soul of its freedom, no matter how hard it may try. Tyrants can defy the benefits -- or deny the benefits, I should say -- of freedom to their peoples, can kill freedom by killing free people. But freedom itself they cannot have. For one thing, people like you won't allow it. Nor will that Higher Being allow it.”

— Remarks at a Luncheon for Recipients of the Medal of Freedom