Lot 172
Ronald Reagan, Typescript Quote Signed "Ronald Reagan", one page 8½" x 11" with typed quote reading "Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.", and below "U.N. General Assembly, New York, September 22, 1986", Very Fine.Estimate $500 - 750.
TYPESCRIPT OF THE FAMOUS QUOTE BY RONALD REAGAN ABOUT ARMING BECAUSE NATIONS MISTRUST EACH OTHER.
Speaking of U.S.-Soviet relations and his steadfast determination to reduce arms, President Reagan would often say: "We don't mistrust each other because we're armed; we're armed because we mistrust each other." He believed that if the mistrust was eliminated, then so, too, could the dangerous, destabilizing weapons. President Reagan was confident that if he could just get his Soviet counterpart in a room and tell him face-to-face that America had no hostile intent, the mistrust would begin to evaporate. Instinctively he knew that could not be accomplished through the traditional diplomacy of a bureaucratic State Department. The summits with General Secretary Gorbachev would eventually lead to arms reduction and the end of the Soviet Union.