Realistic Optimism

"With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today...we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see."

~Ronald Reagan

"There is nothing wrong with America that Americans can't fix."

~ Ronald Reagan

"We are the showcase of the future. And it is within our power to mold that future -this year and for decades to come. It can be as grand and as great as we make it.... No crisis is beyond the capacity of our people to solve; no challenge too great."

~ Ronald Reagan

"The history of our civilization, the great advances that made it possible, is not a story of cynics or doom criers. It is a gallant chronicle of the optimists, the determined people, men and women, who dreamed great dreams and dared to try whatever it took to make them come true. "

~ Ronald Reagan

"Some may try and tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America every day is a new beginning, and every sunset is merely the latest milestone on a voyage that never ends. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming. Emerson was right: America is the land of Tomorrow."

~ Ronald Reagan