Ronald Reagan Quotes About Victory

• Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave.

  Ronald Reagan

  Marine, Keys, Light

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

• Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights that make for human dignity and progress. America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace. Every blow we inflict against poverty will be a blow against its dark allies of oppression and war. Every victory for human freedom will be a victory for world peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  Determination, War, Dark

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

• How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best hope of man on Earth? After all our struggles to restore America, to revive confidence in our country, hope for our future - after all our hard-won victories earned through the patience and courage of every citizen - we cannot, must not, and will not turn. We will finish our job. How could we do less? We're Americans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Jobs, Believe

  Reagan, Ronald (1986). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1984”, p.93, Best Books on

• We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock to some of the placard painters in our modern demonstrations. The lesson of Vietnam, I think, should be that never again will young Americans be asked to fight and possibly die for a cause unless that cause is so meaningful that we, as a nation, pledge our full resources to achieve victory as quickly as possible.

  Ronald Reagan

  Meaningful, Adventure, Fighting

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