Under his leadership, guided by strong conservative principles, Reagan helped oversee America’s return to prosperity and the fall of the Soviet Union. As Heritage’s Lee Edwards lays out in a new paper, Reagan exhibited “the classical virtues of courage, prudence, justice, and wisdom.” As Edwards explains, when Reagan left office, he assured Americans that together they had made a difference. “They had made America—that ‘shining city on a hill’—stronger and freer and had left her in good hands.”
We here at The Heritage Foundation are not unaware of the challenges we face today, but we are confident that they can be conquered and that Americans can, as they always have, be counted upon to find solutions. As President Reagan said in that same inauguration speech, “After all, why shouldn’t we believe that? We are Americans. God bless you, and thank you.”
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