Quotes

Reagan on America

“There are a number of things that keep our country united: a shared reverence for certain ideals, for instance, and certain memories and traditions, but there's something more. We're a country of 230 million very different souls, and yet here we are -- liberals and conservatives, fundamentalists and agnostics, southerners and northerners, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants -- arguing often enough and disagreeing with each other, but at the same time held together, always held together by a tie that can't be seen, yet can't be broken. It is, I think, the great unknowing love of Americans for Americans, the great unknowing love that keeps us together and for which, this day, I'm more thankful than ever.”

July 20, 1985

Radio Address to the Nation on the President's Recovery From Surgery