Quotes

Reagan on Democracy

“The foundation stone of national life is and ever must be the individual character of the individual citizen.”

December 23, 1987

“Theodore Roosevelt once said: 'The foundation stone of national life is and ever must be the individual character of the individual citizen.' Nowhere has that fact been better demonstrated than in our national quest for excellence, which has spurred Americans to strive to live up to the highest ideals of our nature and our heritage.”

— Proclamation 5757 -- National Day of Excellence