Why for so many years we achieved so much - Ronald Reagan

if we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much prospered as no other people on Earth it was because here in this land we unleash the energy and individual Genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before freedom and the Dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on Earth the price for this Freedom at times has been high but we have never been unwilling to pay that PR price it is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government it is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams