"There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder." - President Ronald Reagan, Address to the University of South Carolina, Columbia, September 20, 1983.
"The glistening hope of that lamp is still ours. Every promise every opportunity is still golden in this land. And through that golden door our children can walk into tomorrow with the knowledge that no one can be denied the promise that is America..." - President Ronald Reagan.
"Her heart is full; her door is still golden, her future bright. She has arms big enough to comfort and strong enough to support, for the strength in her arms is the strength of her people. She will carry on in the eighties unafraid, unashamed, and unsurpassed..." - President Ronald Reagan.
"I don’t believe that the people I’ve met in almost every state in the union are ready to consign this, the last island of freedom, to the dustbin of history." - Ronald Reagan, campaign speech. 1976.
"It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We’re not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I Do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing." - Ronald Reagan, 1st inaugural address, January 20, 1981.
"I’ve always believed that this land was set aside in an uncommon way, that a divine plan placed this great continent between the oceans to be found by a people from every corner of the earth who had a special love of faith, freedom and peace". - Ronald Reagan, speech in Washington D.C. November 11, 1982.
"Back over the years, citizens like ourselves have gathered within these walls when our nation was threatened, sometimes when its very existence was at stake. Always, with courage and common sense they met the crisis of their time and lived to see a stronger, better and more prosperous country.... Yes we still have problems – plenty of them. But it is just plain wrong – unjust to our country and unjust to our people – to let those problems stand in the way of the most important truth of all: America is on the mend." - Ronald Reagan, State of The Union Address. January 25, 1983.
"America is too great for small dreams." - Ronald Reagan, speech to Congress. January 1, 1984.
"In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is." - President Ronald Reagan, RNC speech, August 23, 1984.
"I don't know about you but I'm getting tired of whining voices telling us we can't do this and we can't do that. . . . Don't tell Americans what they can't do, just tell them what needs doing and then let them surprise you with their ingenuity." - Ronald Reagan. Speech on recession, Jan. 1982.
"We Americans make no secret of our belief in freedom. In fact, it’s something of a national pastime." - Ronald Reagan, speech at Moscow State University, May 31, 1988.
"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have." - Ronald Reagan.
On a bit of a tangent, an odd thought came to me a few minutes ago. With all the terror warnings that turn out to be red herrings, are the jihadis doing a Reagan on us? What I mean by that is could they be trying to force us to waste huge amounts of resources? We have much more than the Soviets ever did, but they are not infinite. At the least, they will inflict lots of damage (economic) even if they eventually lose? (They will lose.)