Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 2035 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Paine (1737–1809) |
| QUOTATION: | We have it in our power to begin the world over again. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President Ronald Reagan quoted these words in a televised presidential campaign debate with Walter F. Mondale, October 7, 1984. |
| SUBJECTS: | World |