You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

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I have... instituted systematic, voluntary measures of cooperation with the business institutions and with State and municipal authorities to make certain that…

The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local respo…

It becomes us, in humility, to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with whi…

I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall pr…

We've done our part. And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan revolution, the men and women across America who …