Quotes

Reagan on Heroism, Free Enterprise, and America

“If we have a greater nation today, it is not only because of economic progress, but because of growth in opportunity.”

January 3, 1989

“At the January 1981 Inaugural I spoke of heroes, not the people who are famous, but the people who every day risk their money, their time, and their reputation in the community, who work hard for themselves and their neighbors, whose day-to-day contributions sum up to national greatness. If we have a greater nation today, it is not only because of economic progress, but because of growth in opportunity.”

— Annual Report to the Congress on the State of Small Business