Reagan's Wisdom Applies Very Much to Today (Vanity)

Mind Freed

[Mind Freed]

I recently had a discussion with some Freepers about Ronald Reagan and how using him as a reference to what we want in a leader doesn't help my generation. I was born in 1980 so I don't remember very well what kind of president Reagan was. Through talking with those who remember I have to come to have a very clear picture of exactly who he was, how much he cared, and what an amazing American he really was. I was to told to read "A time to choose". A speech Reagan gave while speaking on behalf of Barry Goldwater in 1964.

A time to choose

This speech is one the greatest speeches I have ever read or heard. I know he has more and I am going to find and read as many as possible. Below in my comment are some of the statements that jumped out at me as applying very much to our situation today.

[Mind Freed]

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.

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."

"the full power of centralized government" -- this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize.

A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

They also knew, those Founding Fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy.

Every responsible farmer and farm organization has repeatedly asked the government to free the farm economy, but how -- who are farmers to know what's best for them?

For three decades, we've sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

What does it mean whether you hold the deed to the -- or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property?

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.

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."

[Cyber Ninja]

He (and you) got that right.