Quotes

Reagan on Democracy

“These values are the bedrock of our strength.”

January 25, 1983

“America's leadership in the world came to us because of our own strength and because of the values which guide us as a society: free elections, a free press, freedom of religious choice, free trade unions, and above all, freedom for the individual and rejection of the arbitrary power of the state. These values are the bedrock of our strength.”

— Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union