"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.
We will preserve for our children - this, the last best hope of man on earth,
or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of
darkness.
If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of
us
we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
* 1964 A Time For Choosing Speech
"We've done our part.
And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and
women
of the Reagan revolution, the men and women across America
who for 8 years did the work that brought America back.
My friends: We did it. We weren't just marking time.
We made a difference. We made the city stronger, we made the city
freer,
and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad
at all.
And so, goodbye, God bless you, and God bless the United States of
America."
*Janurary 20, 1989 Farewell Address
"The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours.
It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age,
you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in
freedom.
We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology."
* Ronald Reagan
"Some may try and tell us that this is the end of an era.
But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning,
and every sunset is merely the latest milestone on a voyage that never ends.
For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming.
Emerson was right: America is the Land of Tomorrow."
* Ronald Reagan