Reverend Clergy all, Senator Hawkins, distinguished members of the Florida congressional delegation, and all of you: I can’t tell you how you have warmed my heart with your welcome. I’m

We’re approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention–totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have

We’re here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For 4 long years, much of Europe had been

Ronald Reagan, “Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress Reporting on the State of the Union,” in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1982,

Ladies and Gentlemen, I’d planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those