President Reagan's Speech Upon War and Peace

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    Reagan's Speech:
    Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy "accommodation." And they say if we'll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he'll forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer-not an easy answer-but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.
    We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, "Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave masters." Alexander Hamilton said, "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Now let's set the record straight. There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace-and you can have it in the next second-surrender.
    Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face-that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand-the ultimatum. And what then-when Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we're retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he's heard voices pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Red than dead," or as one commentator put it, he'd rather "live on his knees than die on his feet." And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don't speak for the rest of us.
    You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well it's a simple answer after all.
    You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay."

КОМЕНТАРІ • 24

  • @jakeny1584
    @jakeny1584 9 років тому +71

    I came here from a song

    • @jakeny1584
      @jakeny1584 9 років тому +2

      ***** The song is called visi

    • @aleksjovanoski9018
      @aleksjovanoski9018 9 років тому +2

      +KoleTheKi11er i came here for that exact same reason football vines led to a somg called hucci vision

    • @blackwaterunsc
      @blackwaterunsc  9 років тому +2

      Do you guys want to see more content like this? :D

    • @Bzooga
      @Bzooga 9 років тому

      +blackwaterunsc yes

    • @natasha4984
      @natasha4984 9 років тому

      same i watched a foot ball vine and there was a remix of this

  • @jakevernon3441
    @jakevernon3441 6 років тому +15

    Anyone who is curious, the speech is called "A Time for Choosing" given on October 27th 1964.

  • @burn1none
    @burn1none 7 років тому +14

    came from the Dubstep remix, stayed for the goosebumps

  • @Bzooga
    @Bzooga 9 років тому +26

    I love this speech. Ronald Reagan was badass man.

  • @thegiddyjoy
    @thegiddyjoy 6 років тому +6

    lmao the kill feed in top right

  • @farzana6676
    @farzana6676 2 роки тому +2

    This speech is so relevant today after Russia invaded Ukraine!
    We know too well that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong but it is when we are weak that tyrants are tempted.

  • @jidahdana5083
    @jidahdana5083 5 років тому +4

    Shit hits different when I'm high and I'm Nigerian. My government post to listen to this shit right here!

  • @natasha4984
    @natasha4984 9 років тому +2

    same i watched a foot ball vine and there was a remix of this

  • @MasterJorge052
    @MasterJorge052 9 років тому +6

    Whoa... this video is so cool!
    -an 8 year-old toaster-

  • @vytautas134
    @vytautas134 3 роки тому +3

    Hucci

  • @johnhannibalsmith1607
    @johnhannibalsmith1607 3 роки тому

    A tiktok video brought me here.