US Presidency
1981

It was Pope John Paul II who warned in last year's encyclical on mercy and justice against certain economic theories that use the rhetoric of class struggle to justify injustice. He said, In the name of an alleged justice the neighbor is sometimes destroyed, killed, deprived of liberty or stripped of fundamental human rights. For the West, for America, the time has come to dare to show to the world that our civilized ideas, our traditions, our values, are not, like the ideology and war machine of totalitarian societies, just a facade of strength. It is time for the world to know our intellectual and spiritual values are rooted in the source of all strength, a belief in a Supreme Being, and a law higher than our own. When it's written, history of our time won't dwell long on the hardships of the recent past. But history will ask, and our answer determine the fate of freedom for a thousand years, Did a nation born of hope lose hope? Did a people forged by courage find courage wanting '?