You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our childrens children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

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Ronald Reagan was president of the united states from 1981 to 1989. Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an important figure in the American conservative movement. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Freedom — The value of liberty, independence, and self-determination
  • Peace — The pursuit of harmony, reconciliation, and inner calm

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