The march of freedom and democracy will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history.
Politicians
Ronald Reagan
40th US president (1911-2004). A Hollywood actor turned California governor, he won 1980 in a landslide. Reaganomics paired tax cuts with a defence build-up tripling debt; he denounced the USSR yet signed the INF Treaty.
View this figure's profile
Ronald Reagan's Other Quotes
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Honey, I forgot to duck.
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Related Quotes
Nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev
We choose freedom.
-- Konrad Adenauer
It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.
-- Harry S. Truman
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
-- Ronald Reagan
I am a Berliner.
-- John F. Kennedy