President Ronald Reagan On War And Aliens

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To the students of Fallston High School in Fallston, Maryland, on December 4, 1985, he said:

"I couldn't help but say to him [General Secretary Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe. We'd forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries and we would find out once and for all that we really are all human beings on this earth together.

"Well, I don't suppose we can wait for some alien race to come down and threaten us...."

To the 42nd General Assembly of the United Nations, September 21, 1987, he said:

"In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?"

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