To refine your results, add quotations around a phrase or use AND, NOT, OR between keywords. You can also filter results after clicking the search icon by selecting any of the categories listed in the "Filter By" section below. Please note that available filters are based on your search results. To learn more about search, visit Search Help.

FILTER BY

Archival Resources
Audio Visual Resources
Educational Resources
Photo Galleries
Speeches

No Media Items found.
Date

Showing 741-750 of 1033 records

Toasts at the State Dinner for Chancellor Helmut Kohl of the Federal Republic of Germany

… of liberty and justice. This is the source of his sense of purpose, the source from which democracy draws its strength, a power beyond the reach of tyrants. Today the Western democracies …

Learn More

Remarks at a Reagan-Bush Rally in Medford, Oregon

… But we know that the Sandinistas immediately began to persecute the genuine believers in democracy and to export terror. They went on to slaughter the Miskito Indians, abuse and deport … and move to kill free speech. So, why isn't my opponent speaking out now about those winds of democracy? More recently, he failed to repudiate the Reverend Jesse Jackson, when he went to …

Learn More

Remarks to the Tax Reform Action Coalition

… cynical enough to believe that real change is impossible, I wouldn't have run for this job. Democracy's a cumbersome process. Like Winston Churchill said, ``Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from …

Learn More

Toasts of President Reagan and President Francois Mitterrand of France at the State Dinner

… our people, nurtured by our governments. Foremost among our ties is a profound commitment to democracy and liberty, a heritage inscribed in the Constitution of both our countries. These …

Learn More

Toasts of the President and King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal at the State Dinner

… Since 1951, the year when my grandfather, late King Tribhuvan, led the Nepalese people to democracy, we have looked to the United States as a land of freedom and fulfillment. The enduring …

Learn More

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With the Students and Faculty at Moscow State University

… population is now getting its first taste of economic freedom. At the same time, the growth of democracy has become one of the most powerful political movements of our age. In Latin America in … are the order of the day. Throughout the world, free markets are the model for growth. Democracy is the standard by which governments are measured. We Americans make no secret of our … is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.'' Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, …

Learn More

Toasts of President Reagan and President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak of Egypt at the State Dinner

… inauguration speech when he stated, ``Freedom means a commitment for freedom to others, and democracy means respect for the legislature and the laws.'' Well, these words reflect a world …

Learn More

Remarks Upon Returning From China

… met -- by their curiosity about us. Many of the Chinese people still don't understand how our democracy works or what impels us as a people. So, I did something unusual. I tried to explain …

Learn More

Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Prisoners of War Medal

… to America. Your resistance to the evil of communism foreshadowed the growing movement toward democracy that we see today around the world. With your blood and valor, you won time for the …

Learn More

Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Representative Jack F. Kemp of New York

… prosperity: it also nourishes a powerful popular force for greater political freedom and democracy. And our revolutionary vision of democracy also means supporting the freedom fighters who take up arms against brutal Communist …

Learn More

Ask an Archivist

Need assistance with anything further? Please contact the Reagan Library archives staff.

Contact Us