Proceedings of Meetings and Symposia>Speech:  Reagan, Ronald (21 September 1987), United Nations General Assembly, Retrieved on 2013-08-09
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    09 AUG 2013

     War is an Alien Threat

    More than a century ago a young Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, visited America. After that visit he predicted that the two great powers of the future world would be, on one hand, the United States, which would be built, as he said, ``by the plowshare,'' and, on the other, Russia, which would go forward, again, as he said, ``by the sword.'' Yet need it be so? Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we ...
    Folksonomies: culture extraterrestrials peace world peace
    Folksonomies: culture extraterrestrials peace world peace
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    Ronald Reagan suggests we would put aside our differences if threatened by extraterrestrials, but then notes that war is an alien threat--alien to how we desire to live.

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