Executive Order 12612
Source: Ronald Reagan, Executive Order 12612—Federalism, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/251147. By the authority vested in me as president by the Constitution and laws […]
Speech to the Republican National Convention (1992)
Thank you, Paul for that kind introduction. And Mr. Chairman, delegates, friends, fellow Americans, thank you so very much for that welcome. You’ve given Nancy and me so many wonderful […]
Speech At Westminster
My Lord Chancellor, Mr. Speaker: The journey of which this visit forms a part is a long one. Already it has taken me to two great cities of the West, […]
Inaugural Address (1985)
Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/259910 Senator Mathias, Chief Justice Burger, Vice President Bush, Speaker O’Neill, Senator Dole, reverend […]
Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention (1980)
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Vice President to be, this convention, my fellow citizens of this great nation: With a deep awareness of the responsibility conferred by your trust, I accept your […]
Remarks on East-West Relations at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1987, Book I (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989), 634–8. Available online from Gerhard Peters and John […]
Farewell Address (1989)
My fellow Americans: This is the 34th time I’ll speak to you from the Oval Office — and the last. We’ve been together for eight years now, and soon it’ll […]
Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1983, Book I (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984), 437–43. Available online from Gerhard Peters and John […]
Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals
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 […]
Speech to the House of Commons
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 […]