Speech on Truman’s Loyalty Program
…I wish to express today my deep concern over a new and dangerous tendency in American life, which I think threatens the very existence of the United States as a […]
Statement by the President on the Government’s Employee Loyalty Program
…I believe I speak for all of the people of the United States when I say that disloyal and subversive elements must be removed from the employ of the Government. […]
Speech on the Truman Doctrine
Radio address concerning President Truman’s proposed loan of $400 million to Greece and Turkey, March 13, 1947, reprinted in the Congressional Record, 80th Congress, First Session, Appendix, Volume 93, Part […]
Excerpts from Sources of Soviet Conduct
Of the original [communist] ideology, nothing has been officially junked. Belief is maintained in the basic badness of capitalism, in the inevitability of its destruction, in the obligation of the […]
Excerpts from The Cold War
Walter Lippmann, The Cold War: A Study in US Foreign Policy (New York: Harper, 1947), 29–31, 35, 37–39. Lippmann (1889–1974) was perhaps the most prominent journalist and public intellectual of […]
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 […]
Human Rights and Foreign Policy
Last week, I spoke in California about the domestic agenda for our Nation: to provide more efficiently for the needs of our people, to demonstrate — against the dark faith […]