Quotes

Reagan on America, Free Enterprise, and Democracy

“With heart and hand let us stand as one today -- one people under God, determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.”

January 21, 1985

“with heart and hand let us stand as one today -- one people under God, determined that our future shall be worthy of our past. As we do, we must not repeat the well-intentioned errors of our past. We must never again abuse the trust of working men and women by sending their earnings on a futile chase after the spiraling demands of a bloated Federal Establishment. You elected us in 1980 to end this prescription for disaster, and I don't believe you reelected us in 1984 to reverse course.”

— Excerpted from Inaugural Address