Ronald Reagan Quote

Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. Poland's struggle to be Poland and to secure the basic rights we often take for granted, demonstrates why we dare not take those rights for granted.

U.S. foreign policy and world realities: addresses by President Ronald W. Reagan, 1982 (ed. 1982)