Quotes

Reagan on Free Enterprise

“Our nation is speeding toward the future at this very moment. We can see it coming. We can see its shape.”

March 8, 1983

“Abraham Lincoln is supposed to have said that the best thing about the future is that it comes only 1 day at a time. In this modern age, it often seems to come more quickly than that, I know. Our nation is speeding toward the future at this very moment. We can see it coming. We can see its shape. I know in your history books you've read about the Industrial Revolution. Well, today we're in the midst of another revolution, one marked by the explosion of technological advances. It's a revolution of microchips and biotechnology. And, yes, it is ironic that products seen only through a microscope can cause such large changes in our society.”

— Remarks During a Visit to Walt Disney World's EPCOT Center Near Orlando, Florida