Quotes

Reagan on Foreign Policy

“Human rights, therefore, is not an abstract moral issue; it is a peace issue.”

November 21, 1985

“We Americans believe that history teaches no clearer lesson than this: Those countries which respect the rights of their own people tend, inevitably, to respect the rights of their neighbors. Human rights, therefore, is not an abstract moral issue; it is a peace issue.”

— Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress Following the Soviet-United States Summit Meeting in Geneva