Recalling Ronald Reagan's words on Independence Day 40 years ago

"The United States is a leader in a world turning, day by day, toward freedom. In Central America and Africa and elsewhere, the tide of the future is a freedom tide. The impulse to create democratic government not only endures; it grows, and that, in spite of real resistance from those who believe in freedom not a bit," President Ronald Reagan told the nation on July 4, 1984.