“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.
– Speech at Omaha Beach on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day

“There you go again.”

– Ronald Reagan’s response after Jimmy Carter went on the offensive against Reagan’s record regarding Medicare at the 1980 Presidential Debate

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.

– Debate with Walter Mondale (October 21, 1984)

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Speech at the Brandenburg Gate. (June 12, 1987)

We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free. Memorial Day speech – May 26, 1983

“You’d be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.”
– Responding to a question from students at Shanghai’s University of Fudan as to which experiences best prepared him for the presidency (April 30, 1984)

“Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity.” – address to United Nations General Assembly, September 21, 1987