US Presidency
1983

We commit our resources and risk the lives of those in our Armed Forces to rescue others from bloodshed and turmoil and to prevent humankind from drowning in a sea of tyranny. In Lebanon, along with our allies, we're working hard to help bring peace to that war torn country and stability to the vital Middle East. In seeking to stabilize the situation in Lebanon, you marines and sailors and our French, Italian, and English companions'are peacekeepers in the truest sense of the word. The world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to the men in its Armed Forces, to the Corps of Marines, to the Navy, the Army. Freedom is being tested throughout the world. In Burma, that government has announced conclusive evidence of North Korean responsibility for the atrocity taking the lives of many members of the Korean Government. We stand with South Korea, and I will be going there next week to carry our message to them, a message of revulsion of this atrocity, determination to stand with our friends in support of freedom.