I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember one bleak night in the thirties when my father learned on Christmas Eve that he'd lost his job. To be young in my generation was to feel that your future had been mortgaged out from under you, and that's a tragic mistake we must never allow our leaders to make again.

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1982: (ed. Best Books on, 1982) - ISBN: 9781623769369