Quotes

Reagan on America, Democracy, and Foreign Policy

“We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of man.”

July 8, 1985

“Teddy Roosevelt -- and he is a good President to quote in these circumstances -- put it so well: 'We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of man.' And that light of high resolve, those golden hopes, are now ours to preserve and protect and, with God's help, to pass on to generations to come.”

— Remarks at the Annual Convention of the American Bar Association