A Farewell

"In this land of dreams, no victory is beyond our reach, no glory will ever be too great."

Ronald W. Reagan


"The American people saw their entire country in that one man."

George Will


"We in Britain, as in so many places around the world, owe him an everlasting debt."

Michael Howard


"He was our hero, he was our hometown boy made good."

Wanita Trader

First Christian Church

Dixon, IL


"In 1983, I was confined to an eight-by-ten-foot prison cell on the border of Siberia. My Soviet jailers gave me the privilege of reading the latest copy of Pravda. Splashed across the front page was a condemnation of President Ronald Reagan for having the temerity to call the Soviet Union an 'evil empire.' Tapping on walls and talking through toilets, word of Reagan's 'provocation' quickly spread throughout the prison. We dissidents were ecstatic. Finally, the leader of the free world had spoken the truth - a truth that burned inside the heart of each and every one of us."

Natan Sharansky


"Like all heroes, Ronald Reagan's greatness was an extension of his goodness and billions of people around the world owe their freedom to both. He will be missed, but his words and deeds belong to the ages now, where they will be loved and honored as long as men yearn to be free."

Senator Tom DeLay


"My wife and son and I had dinner by the river last night -- in a very peaceful grassy spot in a copse of trees -- and she told him all about the great President we used to have who saved the world. I sat there quietly smoking a cigar as a tribute to the man who made me believe in the future."

Anonymous


Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

J.R.R. Tolkien

LOTR (Bk. V, Ch. 9, p. 190)


"When the Lord calls me home, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future."

Ronald W. Reagan

5 November 1994