Ronald Reagan Quote: Preserving the U.S. Constitution

Posted by Douglas V. Gibbs

Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which “We the people” tell the government what it is allowed to do. “We the people” are free. This belief has been the underlying basis for everything I’ve tried to do these past eight years. -- Ronald Reagon in his Farewell Address to the Nation from the Oval Office, January 11, 1989