Whatever the occasion for the speeches presented here, which span
seven years of my presidency, I have always tried to speak plainly
about the enduring values upon which this nation was founded: faith
in God, commitment to democracy, the quest for peace, limited
government, reliance on the free enterprise system, and an
unyielding belief in human freedom as the essential key to human
achievement and the progress of mankind. I believe as fervently in
these core values today as I did when I spoke to the nation on the
eve of the 1980 presidential election, and years earlier, in 1964,
when I first spoke nationally on behalf of another candidate for
President, my good friend Barry Coldwater. I have sometimes been
accused of being overly optimistic in my speeches about America and
the future, but I make no apologies. Faith and freedom are not
wishful thinking, but, quite simply, the most powerful forces in
the world today. Democracy, freedom, economic opportunity---these
are not uniquely American concepts, but ideas that lift the hearts
and compel the allegiance of peoples throughout the world. And they
are the lodestars that have guided my presidency. Achievement,
after all, can only be built on aspiration and hope, not pessimism.
Seven years ago, when I first took office as President, who would
have believed that we could sign an agreement with the Soviets not
only to stop building additional nuclear weapons, but indeed to
eliminate some of them? Yet, last year we took that important step
with the signing of the INF Treaty. This truly historic treaty
eliminates---for the first time---an entire class of U.S. and
Soviet nuclear weapons. Realism is essential, but democracy rests
upon the rockof hope, the belief in a future of greater freedom and
opportunity for succeeding generations. When the children of the
world turn their faces to the light, let them see a sunrise. We owe
them no less. I offer this collection of speeches as the expression
of my belief in the values at work in the United States and the
world today, and of my vision of a world of peace, democracy and
individual freedom that millions of men and women are striving
daily to build. As I so often end my speeches---thank you and God
bless you. Ronald Reagan President of the United States of America
General
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