Quotes

Reagan on America, Democracy, and Free Enterprise

“We struggled for liberty in order to cherish it and defend it and transmit it undiminished to our children and theirs.”

April 19, 1988

“At our founding, we were promised the pursuit of happiness, not the myth of endless ecstasy from a vial of white poison. We won our personal freedom so that we could serve God and man, so that we could freely produce and create and build a nation of strong families, rich farms, and great cities. We struggled for liberty in order to cherish it and defend it and transmit it undiminished to our children and theirs.”

— Remarks at a White House Ceremony Honoring Law Enforcement Officers Slain in the War on Drugs