"I can't believe that this world can..." - Quote by Ronald Reagan
I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things'.
More by Ronald Reagan
“The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.”
“I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine.”
“I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”
More on Nuclear Weapons
“A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.”
“For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.”
“Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority.”
More on Peace
“How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.”
“They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.”
“evenThe bed of love, that in the imaginationHad seemed to be the giver of all peace,Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting,And as soon finished.”