The Great Communicator Vol 3: Reagan on Government & the American Dream
The Great Communicator Vol 3: Reagan on Government & the American Dream
Edited compilation of speeches made by Ronald Reagan during his Presidency
The Great Communicator Vol 3: Reagan on Government & the American Dream
May 31, 1988 Excerpt from Ronald Reagan Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With the Students and Faculty at Moscow State University. "Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put on this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer."
The Great Communicator Vol 3: Reagan on Government & the American Dream
Jan 15, 1986 Excerpt from Ronald Reagan Remarks to the Students and Faculty at Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School. "And maybe someone up here will be making a speech, and they will introduce the next speaker with the words, ``And now, the President of the United States.'' And they'll turn, and they'll be pointing at you, because you'll be the President. Do you think that's a good idea? Audience. Yes! The President. Are you going to study? Audience. Yes! The President. Going to get good marks? Audience. Yes! The President. Will you go to college? Audience. Yes! The President. Wonderful. That makes me so happy."
The Great Communicator Vol 3: Reagan on Government & the American Dream
June 11, 1986 Excerpt from Ronald Reagan Remarks to Participants in the Young Astronauts Program. "And this is no time for small plans or shrinking ambitions. We stand on the threshold of an epic age, an age of technological splendor and an explosion of human potential, an age for heroes. And I think I'm seeing many of them right here in this room. The dreams of your parents will become your realities. The future we can only conjecture, you will be able to reach out and touch - just like that piece of moonstone. You Young Astronauts will be our pilots into the future, and it is our hearts you will carry with you on your voyage to the stars."
The Great Communicator Vol 3: Reagan on Government & the American Dream
Nov 7, 1988 Excerpt from Ronald Reagan Remarks at a Republican Campaign Rally in San Diego, California. "I received a letter not long ago from a man who said: 'You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France, and you'd live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won't become a German or a Turk.' But then he added: 'Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.'"
The Great Communicator Vol 3: Reagan on Government & the American Dream
Aug 15, 1988 Excerpt from Ronald Reagan Remarks at the Republican National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. "I love America because you can join Cub Scouts if you want to. You have a right to worship as you please. If you have the ability, you can try to be anything you want to be. And I also like America because we have about 200 flavors of ice cream."
The Great Communicator Vol 3: Reagan on Government & the American Dream
Nov 7, 1988 Excerpt from Ronald Reagan Remarks at a Republican Campaign Rally in San Diego, California. "But this year my name is not on the ballot. And it won't appear on a ballot ever again, unless, of course, you -- -- Audience members. Booo! The President. No, no -- unless you count the one that someone up there casts when your time is done and the moment has arrived for His verdict, which, when all is said and done, is the only election that really counts. But if my name isn't on your ballot tomorrow, something more important is: a principle, a legacy."
The Great Communicator Vol 3: Reagan on Government & the American Dream
Jan 10, 1989 Excerpt from Ronald Reagan Remarks at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library 50th Anniversary Luncheon. "... no higher tribute can be given a President than that he strengthened our faith in ourselves, which is the foundation of that charter. Policies come and go. Leaders will pass from the stage. The enduring sail and compass of our nation is ``We the people.'' When the American people are strong and confident, when their leaders hear their voices, America, whatever storms it might be weathering, will make it through. It will survive, and it will prevail."
The Great Communicator Vol 3: Reagan on Government & the American Dream
Jan 11, 1989 Excerpt from Ronald Reagan Farewell Address to the Nation. "One of the things about the Presidency is that you're always somewhat apart. You spend a lot of time going by too fast in a car someone else is driving, and seeing the people through tinted glass - the parents holding up a child, and the wave you saw too late and couldn't return. And so many times I wanted to stop and reach out from behind the glass, and connect. Well, maybe I can do a little of that tonight." edit "I've been reflecting on what the past 8 years have meant and mean. And the image that comes to mind like a refrain is a nautical one - a small story about a big ship, and a refugee, and a sailor. It was back in the early eighties, at the height of the boat people. And the sailor was hard at work on the carrier Midway, which was patrolling the South China Sea. The sailor, like most American servicemen, was young, smart, and fiercely observant. The crew spied on the horizon a leaky little boat. And crammed inside were refugees from Indochina hoping to get to America. The Midway sent a small launch to bring them to the ship and safety. As the refugees made their way through the choppy seas, one spied the sailor on deck, and stood up, and called out to him. He yelled, ``Hello, American sailor. Hello, freedom man.'' A small moment with a big meaning, a moment the sailor, who wrote it in a letter, couldn't get out of his mind. And, when I saw it, neither could I. Because that's what it was to be an American in the 1980's. We stood, again, for freedom. I know we always have, but in the past few years the world again - and in a way, we ourselves - rediscovered it." edit "All great change in America begins at the dinner table. So, tomorrow night in the kitchen I hope the talking begins. And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do. And that's about all I have to say tonight, except for one thing. The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the ``shining city upon a hill.'' The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early freedom man. He journeyed here on what today we'd call a little wooden boat; and like the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free. I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still."
The Great Communicator Vol 3: Reagan on Government & the American Dream
Mar 9, 1988 Excerpt from Ronald Reagan Remarks at the Unveiling of the Knute Rockne Commemorative Stamp at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. "As Americans, as free people, you must stand firm, even when it's uncomfortable for you to do so. It won't always be easy. There will be moments of joy, of triumph. There will also be times of despair, times when all those around you are ready to give up. It's then I want you to remember our meeting today. And 'some time when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, but I'll know about it, and I'll be happy.'"
The Great Communicator Vol 3: Reagan on Government & the American Dream
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