[ April 18, 2024 ]
Chilling. Like most of the time Ronald Reagan was spot on. He was such a brilliant man. Fortunately we could not ask for a better leader in President Donald J. Trump to save the Republic from the Left.
ICYMI – Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing” Speech (10/27/64) http://t.co/joeNhRAdwE via @cspanHistory pic.twitter.com/rVO6PJbHAn
— CSPAN (@cspan) October 27, 2014
WATCH: Reagan Warned Us About Today’s Democrats In 1964
“A Time for Choosing”
Speech delivered October 27, 1964
Story continues below advertisementThank you. Thank you very much. Thank you and good evening. The sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasn’t been provided with a script. As a matter of fact, I have been permitted to choose my own words and discuss my own ideas regarding the choice that we face in the next few weeks.
I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. Now, one side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. The line has been used, “We’ve never had it so good.”
But I have an uncomfortable feeling that this prosperity isn’t something on which we can base our hopes for the future. No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. Today, 37 cents out of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collector’s share, and yet our government continues to spend 17 million dollars a day more than the government takes in. We haven’t balanced our budget 28 out of the last 34 years. We’ve raised our debt limit three times in the last twelve months, and now our national debt is one and a half times bigger than all the combined debts of all the nations of the world. We have 15 billion dollars in gold in our treasury; we don’t own an ounce. Foreign dollar claims are 27.3 billion dollars. And we’ve just had announced that the dollar of 1939 will now purchase 45 cents in its total value.
As for the peace that we would preserve, I wonder who among us would like to approach the wife or mother whose husband or son has died in South Vietnam and ask them if they think this is a peace that should be maintained indefinitely. Do they mean peace, or do they mean we just want to be left in peace? There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. We’re at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it’s been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. Well I think it’s time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers.
Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, “We don’t know how lucky we are.” And the Cuban stopped and said, “How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to.” And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man.
This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I’d like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There’s only an up or down—[up] man’s old—old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
In this vote-harvesting time, they use terms like the “Great Society,” or as we were told a few days ago by the President, we must accept a greater government activity in the affairs of the people. But they’ve been a little more explicit in the past and among themselves; and all of the things I now will quote have appeared in print. These are not Republican accusations. For example, they have voices that say, “The cold war will end through our acceptance of a not undemocratic socialism.” Another voice says, “The profit motive has become outmoded. It must be replaced by the incentives of the welfare state.” Or, “Our traditional system of individual freedom is incapable of solving the complex problems of the 20th century.” Senator Fullbright has said at Stanford University that the Constitution is outmoded. He referred to the President as “our moral teacher and our leader,” and he says he is “hobbled in his task by the restrictions of power imposed on him by this antiquated document.” He must “be freed,” so that he “can do for us” what he knows “is best.” And Senator Clark of Pennsylvania, another articulate spokesman, defines liberalism as “meeting the material needs of the masses through the full power of centralized government.” more …….
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18 Comments
3 years ago
That’s a great speech!
H.W. Bush was his poison pill to stop the GOP establishment ganging up on him. In a book, he wrote that was his regret – Herbert Walker Bush as his VP. Now I understand why. I’ll never forget when HWB touted “compassionate conservatism”. I thought, what is he talking about unless he is expanding handouts……Then there was the NWO phrase and I didn’t like that either….
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
IT FORESHADOWED WHAT WAS TO COME. TODAY’S SEN WILLARD MITT ROMNEY IS GEORGE H.W. BUSH’S TWIN! WE ON THE RIGHT ARE TRULY ENTITLED TO HATE HIM!
3 years ago
Stand strong, America. We will defeat this outrageous attack on our culture. Fight back. Turn off anything that stinks of sedition like the NFL. Don’t support millionaire communists fighting the revolution from their gated compounds.
Fight for America with every beat of your heart. This is the greatest country ever created and these vile, malevolent scum want to tear it all down.
The ignorance of their demands is breathtaking! They know nothing. They are reprobate morons on a rampage. Their rage bespeaks their failure in life.
America is an open door for anyone who has the savvy and will to take advantage of the opportunities she presents.
In God we trust!
3 years ago
Reply to
Aaron S.
“In God we Trust”… America became the once great nation she was because it was God’s will that it be so, and most of that was based on a population that tried to honor Him and His principles. If anyone thinks that a nation that aborts its unborn and sells the body parts to the highest bidder, is a nation that still honors God, then they have lost the meaning of ‘Godly’. We have turned our backs to Him and have brought destruction upon ourselves.
What made the ‘greatness’ is mocked by our institutions and taught as such to our youth…it is hardly even preached in our churches. Without God’s blessings, we have no means to defeat the principalities and powers that would see us destroyed as a nation. We ignored His calls to repent and it is our own apostacy and laziness to keep His word vital to our way of life, that we are on the brink.
Just as it was God’s will that built us, it is God’s will that we will be subverted…the time of the end has come…do you trust in God enough for that?
3 years ago
Reply to
James Jones
WE CAN THANK MAOIST CHINA THAT SHOT UP IN THE 1980’S AS WE AMERICANS IGNORANTLY COUPLED WITH THEM WHILE RIPPING OFF RUSSIA FOR MAKING SURE WE CAN HARDLY WORSHIP IN CHURCHES IN THE USA TODAY. FACT IS THE GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE’S BUSINESS EMPIRE CLASS IS DOING WHAT IT CAN TO NOT HIRE CHRISTIANS WHO CARE ABOUT PRACTICING THEIR RELIGION TOO! THIS IS ALL NOT JUST A COINCIDENCE! BEING UNEMPLOYED THANKS TO COVID 19, I EXPERIENCE THIS ALL THE TIME!
3 years ago
Reply to
Cauc-Asian Patriot
I wholeheartedly agree that the Covid19 attack to the world’s economy was not a coincidence…it was an orchestrated attack meant to sow chaos and destruction, “This is the moment we have been investing in for the past 25yrs”, director of Open Society Foundations, Patrick Gaspard (the ‘plan’ though, actually goes back a 100+yrs). Their motto, “Order out of Chaos”
However, the rot that took hold in Christian churches (not all), began many decades ago, and was aided and abetted by the same money (Rockefeller +) that has its stinking fingerprints on current messes.
We are in the most unique set of circumstances in recorded history. We have the ‘secular’ issues of extreme social, foundational, and economic calamity happening across the West and beyond. Then we have scriptural prophecy unfolding in parallel to all these world events and more, that when taken altogether, proclaims the same level of, ‘no coincidence’, that there is an agenda.
Biblical prophecies (over 1800) have never been wrong. People have posted that they don’t believe in the prophecies, yet as unambiguously as they were given, they all have fulfilled down to the specific details given of both content and timing…100%. Scoffers once tried to claim that the prophecies in Daniel were too specific and accurate to have been written before the fact, yet the very research they launched to try and prove their ‘after-the-fact’ claims, ended up completely validating the authenticity and legitimacy of those prophecies. Why is this stuff not heralded…even churches don’t teach on this, yet it is nothing short of proof of God.
We have the big picture of what the global elitists are pursuing, but then we have the even bigger picture of what God is doing. It is clear to the secularist that some kind of ‘reset’ is not far away, but to the believer, that ‘reset’ is actually the end of this age of man. Many have much to prepare for.
3 years ago
Reply to
James Jones
THE BIBLE IS BASED ON INTERPRETATION AND GOD IS A MYSTERY BECAUSE HE IS THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF CREATION! PERHAPS THAT IS WHY I PREFER A CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS WORSHIP SYSTEM FOUNDED ON ANCIENT RITUAL STEMMING FROM THE ANCIENT TEMPLE RITUALS OF THE MOSAIC, JEWISH TEMPLE!
TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU AND APPRECIATE YOUR INPUT ABOUT GEORGE SOROS! I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THE GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE IS AS A CORPORATE SOUL/SOCIETY THE EMBODIMENT OF ANTI-CHRIST AND I BELIEVE AS AN INSTITUTIONALIZED GROUP IT GOES BACK TO THE ILLUMINATI OF THE MID 1700’s! IT IS OVER 300 YEARS OLD AND THE MOST DEVIOUS DEVICE SATAN HAS EVER USED TO PERVERT HUMANKIND! SUPER SUMMER TO YOU AND YOUR’S!
3 years ago
I really miss President Reagan. A great man and a great leader!
3 years ago
To anyone who dislikes living in this country, be advised, I’ll help you pack.
Isn’t it amazing, the Constitution was written by a genius group and is now being tampered with and criticized by idiots?
Just remember that any rule or law was mostly written as a reaction to a bad experience, as was the Constitution.
3 years ago
A vote for Bidet is a vote for the CCP, BLM, ANTIFA, SOROS,and the mob who are determined to destroy our nation, civilization and our God.
3 years ago
This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
Now listen up, peasants. I reside in the Greater Washington DC area, and this is a direct assault on my neighbors and me. Yessiree, this reasonably could be called hate speech, and I hope the twits at Facebook, Google, GoFundMe (get lost) will take due notice of this coded threat to the rightful rulers of America. You rednecks need to learn your place, ‘cuz if this seditious attitude is allowed to go unchecked, it won’t stop at the Potomac- its insidious effect might even reach the insular communities of Silicon Valley.
Just so you know, America, the DC area, in recent months, has had thousands of civil servants who infrequently venture to their workplace. Allegedly, they telework from home. And while I won’t say they are doing nothing related to their assigned tasks, their productivity, none to high to begin with, is far less than it was back in the olden times of 2019. Now maybe that’s not all bad- but they are drawing a full salary, with benefits that very likely greatly exceed yours.
O to have the pleasant, but quite radical, voice of RR back at the helm. Unfortunately, today it is left to lessor characters to carry forth the movement he lead and that coalesced around him. But the alternative is the likes of Nancy Pelosi, AOC, and Ilhan Omar. In contrast to RR a mere 40 years ago, I find it difficult to be optimistic about the future of America.
3 years ago
With Communists you play whack-a-mole. Defeat them in one place and they flee to another to wreck and destroy. Russia is now Christian and mostly capitalistic while the US is sinking into the mire of communism. The Only solution is to pull Marxism out by its roots and salt the earth against its revival.
3 years ago
Wise man,Everything in this speech is happening again the communist libtarded iceholes never stop.
3 years ago
JUST SO YOU KNOW, I CLICKED ON THE VIDEO AND COULD NOT GET IT TO PLAY LIKE IT IS BEING BLOCKED SOMEHOW! KUDOS AGAIN TO FELIX1999. WHILE I HATE STATING MY AGE, PRES. REAGAN WAS PRESIDENT THROUGH MY TEENAGE YEARS. IN 1980, HIS ELECTION BEATING PREZ. JIMMY PEANUT HEAD CARTER WAS ESSENTIAL WITHOUT A DOUBT!
I TRULY BELIEVE THERE WAS A TRAGEDY IN PRES. RONALD REAGAN AS HE WAS FIRST ELECTED 4 YEARS JUST TOO LATE BECAUSE BY 1984 HE WAS JUST NOT PHYSICALLY CAPABLE OF HANDLING THE JOB ALTHOUGH HE WAS STILL IN BETTER SHAPE THAN VP DEMENTIA DADDY JOE BRIBE’M/BIDEN IS TODAY WHO EMERGED IN POLITICS AS A CO-OPERATIVE democ-RAT TO THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION WHICH WAS TOO GOOD TO HIM ALONG WITH RACIST SENATORS TALMADGE AND EASTLAND! 1976 SHOULD HAVE BEEN PRES. RONALD REAGAN’S ELECTION YEAR AND WE SHOULD HAVE RETIRED PRES GERALD R FORD WHO ADMITTEDLY WAS A SAINT IN COMPARISON TO PRES OBAMA-CARTER!
LIKE FELIX1999 POINTS OUT PRES. REAGAN WAS CO-OPTED BY THE GLOBALISTS REPRESENTED BY THE BUSH RINO FACTION OF THE GOP WHICH IS STILL IN THE WINGS! FACT IS PRES. REAGAN WAS LED INTO SUPPORTING THE FIRST BETRAYAL OF A MAJOR AMERICAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY OF THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY WHICH FORESHADOWED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN LATER; THE EXEMPTION FROM RESPONSIBILITY OF MEDICAL VACCINES AND NASTY GLOBALIST PHARMA CAME ALONG WHICH HAS CREATED ALL KINDS OF ISSUES ESPECIALLY AS GLOBALIST MONSANTO NOW JOINED WITH THE NAZI SUPPORTER, PFIZER WHICH SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO RE-ESTABLISH ITSELF AFTER WWII, HELPED CREATE TODAY’S FOOD THAT ISN’T FIT TO EAT CALLED GMOS! ALSO, THE WORST AND MOST MAJOR AMNESTY OF ILLEGALS HAPPENED WHICH COUPLED WITH FREE TRADE THAT GAVE AWAY OUR STORE TO MAOIST CHINA PRINCIPALLY WAS WHY SO MANY LEFT TO THE democ-RAT PARTY IN THE 1990s ALTHOUGH I DIDN’T DO SO UNTIL THE EARLY 2000’S OFFICIALLY AFTER SEEING THE GROSS RESULTS IN COMMERCIAL SALES OF 25% OF USA MANUFACTURING SAYING “BYE”!
LAST AND WHAT SHOULD BE MOST DISTURBING FOR THE PEACE OF THE WORLD WAS THE SUPPORT BY THE USA OF JIHADIS FIRST IN AFGHANISTAN AND THEN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD! WE HAVE TO OWN WHAT WE DID TO CREATE THE MODERN PROBLEM WHICH GEORGE H.W. BUSH CEMENTED AS POLICY IN A PLACE CALLED BOSNIA WHEN HE BOMBED SERBIAN CIVILIANS AND HELPED THE JIHADI MUSLIMS SCORE THEIR FIRST MAJOR VICTORY AGAINST CHRISTIAN NATIONS SINCE THE FREEING OF THE BALKANS IN THE 19TH CENTURY!
I TRULY DO HONOR PRES. RONALD REAGAN THE EXCEPTIONAL MAN THAT HE WAS BUT THE REALITY OF THE 1980’S WAS A LET-DOWN OF WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE TRUE, RIGHTIST RENAISSANCE THAT TOOK THE LEFT OUT OF EXISTENCE AS A POTENTIALLY DOMINANT POLITICAL INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD’S GEO-POLITIC! WE ARE IN THE SHAPE TODAY DUE TO THE SINS OF YESTERDAY SYMBOLIZED BY VP DADDY JOE BRIBE’M/BIDEN WHO COOPERATED WITH THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION ON A LOT OF THESE BAD INITIATIVES WHICH ARE CHICKENS NOW MORE THAN ROOSTING BUT TURNING THE WESTERN WORLD INTO A HEN HOUSE OF LEFTIST INFAMY! SPEAK THE TRUTH AND MAKE IT PLAIN! SUPER SUMMER, RIGHTISTS!
3 years ago
Nixon and the neocons empowered China
