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.

Showing 491-500 of 995 records

Statement on Signing the Food Security Act of 1985

… our sugar program while encouraging them to maintain a stable course toward development with democracy. The inclusion of a dairy assessment tax, which will tax all milk producers to fund a …

Learn More

Radio Address to the Nation on the Supreme Court Nomination of Anthony M. Kennedy, Central America, and Deficit Reduction

… in Central America in the coming days, the United States will continue to stress that democracy must come first. As Nobel Prize winner President Arias has said: `` The day the …

Learn More

Radio Address to the Nation on the Presidential Election and Veterans Day

… President-elect Bush said it well the other day: `` We can now speak the most majestic words a democracy has to offer: The people have spoken.'' Only twice in our history -- during the dark …

Learn More

Remarks at an Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast in Dallas, Texas

… needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive. A state is nothing more than a … what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, …

Learn More

Message to the Congress on United States Assistance for the Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance

… by the Congress for this purpose. Second, when I proposed to the Congress a Central America Democracy, Peace, and Development Initiative to implement the recommendations of the National … States to protect its own interests and those of the brave men and women who are fighting for democracy in Central America. The time for decision is now. Your vote on my request will be a …

Learn More

Remarks at a Flag Day Ceremony in Baltimore, Maryland

… Washington described it, would endure. Thinking back to those times, one realizes that our democracy is so strong because it was forged in the fires of adversity. In those dark days of the … so that all of our citizens can walk through. The great American experiment in freedom and democracy has really just begun. Celebrations such as this remind us of the terrible hardships …

Learn More

Radio Address to the Nation on the Supreme Court Nomination of Robert H. Bork

… appointees to propaganda torture tests does terrible damage to the underlying values of this democracy and the safeguards of our freedoms.'' But despite these courageous words from a few …

Learn More

Proclamation 5921 -- Human Rights Day, Bill of Rights Day, and Human Rights Week, 1988

… continue this effort, and to stand in solidarity with those who resist, until the blessings of democracy, freedom, and respect for human dignity are assured throughout the world. Now, …

Learn More

Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina

… won't work. We can only keep our families safe and our country at peace when the enemies of democracy know America has the courage to stay strong. And Jesse Helms and I intend to make sure … no mistake: The United States must and will support our friends who are building and defending democracy in Central America. We will not permit dictators to ram communism down the throats of …

Learn More

Remarks to Ethnic and Minority Administration Supporters on the Supreme Court Nomination of Douglas H

… the law -- no matter how high or fine their intentions -- to that extent, we cease to be a democracy governed by the people and become governed instead by the very few. This is not what the Founders like Madison intended. To keep faith with their noble experiment in democracy, to keep faith with the generations of Americans who for two centuries have labored and …

Learn More

Ask an Archivist

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