Ronald Reagan - "A Time for Choosing"
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In a speech supporting the Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater, Reagan speaks of big government, high taxation, and the "war on poverty." He addresses foreign policy issues including the risk of appeasement, "peace through strength," and the Vietnam War. The speech establishes Reagan as an important figure in the conservative wing of the Republican party.
October 27, 1964
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"If we lose freedom here there's no place to escape to." Goddamn right.
@lisaprince5767
Жыл бұрын
How are we defending out freedom by invading a foreign country? We should have learned that from Nam. Where we entered over an attack on one of our ships off the coast of North Vietnam that never happened. If there's such a concern for freedom...why has the conservative faction of our bipartisan system been responsible for some of the most despotic regimes in history? Such as the Pinochet regime in Chile? Saddam Hussein in Iraq? Hussein within the first month took out his entire cabinet with the full knowledge of America who looked the other way. The TALIBAN. That's right. WE put them in power in Afghanistan....funded and trained them to get rid of the soviets in Afghanistan. They funded and trained HAMAS al qaeda and probably isis. If we want to protect freedom we need to return to the foundation of our constitutional republic which was established to GET AWAY from this bullshit. You don't protect OUR freedom by illegally invading foreign countries over conflicts not even relevant to the immediate scope over what is occurring here. That's westernization not freedom. Especially since we talk about protecting our freedom while establishing despotic regimes in other countries. The most dangerous about our bipartisan political paradigm is its hypocritical nature. Neither party is interested in our constitution except as a byword to be used for their own benefit.
Wow - I was too young and radical to appreciate him then. We need him today more than ever.
@gearheadgaming1537
3 жыл бұрын
There are many things to be taken from this.. he is so well-spoken and makes sense. No leader is spotless or even moral (war on drugs) but we a figure like Reagan to actually make people proud of our leaders. No one is proud of trump
@deborahj.dirk-halley1850
3 жыл бұрын
Radical. Maybe our schools should have done a better job on education.
@soren9833
3 жыл бұрын
@@gearheadgaming1537 Why be proud of a man who supported terrorism in Nicaragua?
@robertbonds6355
3 жыл бұрын
@@soren9833 leftist
@robertbonds6355
3 жыл бұрын
@@soren9833 your dumb president Biden is allowing war in the Middle East
This should be required watching in every school.
This speech is very relevant today. Love his speeches I can listen to them forever
"Theres nowhere to escape to, this is the last stand on earth"
For those who gave this speech a thumbs down. Get the hell out and move to Costa Rica. Happy trails.
We need to listen and do what Mr Reagan said! A wonderful President!
Damn, Reagan was something special.
He was as brilliant as Thomas Jefferson and as eloquent as Abraham Lincoln. I missed being born during his Presidency by 4 months. He was a true Patriot.
Amen brother. In 10,000 years, his courage and leadership will still be admired.
@pelican1489
3 жыл бұрын
U aren’t wrong
This has aged terrifyingly well
@Sassyfras9824
2 жыл бұрын
Here in 2022 crying.
@vivelequebeclibre.3654
2 жыл бұрын
NOW you can say it.
@LUCKY-mo5ex
2 жыл бұрын
Agreed!
It is time for another Reagan. We need another true fiscal conservative that believes in individual freedom as well as individual responsibility. Someone who truly loves this country and wants to see freedom for all. Never sacrifice freedom for security. I would rather die on my feet as live on my knees. Reagan came along at the perfect time (repairing most of the damage Jimmy Carter had created). It is time for another Reagan.
@freddywessel5869
3 жыл бұрын
11 years later? I think we may have gotten one
@fordman2698
2 жыл бұрын
There just might be another Reagan in the white house very, very soon. He's currently occupying the governor's mansion in Florida.
@leonb7934
2 жыл бұрын
@@fordman2698 I've been saying this for like a year bro, good there is someone he also can see it
@tachikomakusanagi3744
2 жыл бұрын
TRUMP!!!
@spencerfortier2431
2 жыл бұрын
Do you mean trump?.
Sadly everything he said was true all along and it's happening right now I know a lot of people hate him for his bad and sometimes controversial decisions but when it comes to predicting the future of the country he successfully did people still don't realize that
He Truly was a Great President!!! And a Great Man!!!
"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." ~Ronald Reagan
True then and still true today. We need a leader with his vision and fortitude now. This is a pivotal time in the history of this nation and the time is ripe for a transcendent leader like Ronald Reagan to lead us.
I choose Republican in 1979 when Ronald Reagan ran for President of the United States of America. 😎👍🇺🇸 The Gipper, We miss you!🇺🇸
@paullangdon9575
2 жыл бұрын
@ Ray- You know what brother, so do I and I’m Canadian. I remember when he was president and I knew he was head & shoulders above many others & would be remembered long after his last day. I knew this. And now? We all miss him- and need another like the Gipper. He was good for you Americans & the world.
@apexlifeismine100
Жыл бұрын
God Bless you and your family Let Freedom ring Much Love
God bless the Gipper and Goldwater too.
@angelmaytorena6277
3 жыл бұрын
Can you believe you typed this 11 years ago
@notaknight2652
3 жыл бұрын
@@angelmaytorena6277 wdym
@angelmaytorena6277
3 жыл бұрын
@@notaknight2652 Just the fact that time goes by so fast
@jgtheking573
2 жыл бұрын
@@angelmaytorena6277 and you typed this one year ago... one more year into biden... ugh
@kathconserv
5 ай бұрын
They were two legends.
FUTURE PROVES PAST
America needs another one like him. Or it will perish
I'm not an American, however, I am very pleased to say, that I lived during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan loved his country deep red, white and blue. For al the best reasons he is missed in this world today!
@user-cm5cu9yq5s
Ай бұрын
USS RONALD REAGAN
Damn, Regan was describing what is going on now
@azerd1535
Жыл бұрын
He really was
Sadly, most people will not take any of this seriously until the damage is already done.
ABSOLUTE Truth.
A brilliant man, with a message that resonates even today.
@pelican1489
3 жыл бұрын
And today
@robertbonds6680
2 жыл бұрын
@@pelican1489 that’s what she just said
The only great president of my generation.
Yes!
Best President in our history
@robertbonds6680
2 жыл бұрын
I think George Washington but Reagan is one of the best
The only piece you’re guaranteed is the one that you rest in
Thank you Mr Reagan you were a real revolutionary you changed alot
This is dedicated to someone I know and the show will not go on until your straight up and all is settled. I'm sure you understand.
It’s amazing that this was 60 years ago….
A true president with guts,& a great actor 2 by the way.
RR is a leader
Profound and Relevant for present dangers! Don't change freedom for security. WE lose! 🏴☠️ 🇺🇸
Back when you expected the speaker to have supplied their own words...
Now more true than ever
That Freedom is Already Lost, for decades... Now is just a hint of Freedom, easily brokeable, like Chinada has today. RIP 🇨🇦
The greatest American president ever! 👍
@mrmr5580
Жыл бұрын
I wouldnt go that far Lincoln and Washington are my top 2, but he was the best since Lincoln
We are this moment now
The great Reagan
The Best President This Great Country Ever Had👍 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@jakepaulisgod8952
3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the guy who called black people monkeys from Africa is a great president
@dreasarchive
3 жыл бұрын
@@jakepaulisgod8952 ok well idk politics and shi and Ik he was racist but I feel like he was very wise (not an American citizen btw)
@jgtheking573
2 жыл бұрын
@@jakepaulisgod8952 he wasn't racist
@robertbonds6680
2 жыл бұрын
@@jakepaulisgod8952 right? Because all republicans are racist
@JohnSmith-zw8vp
Жыл бұрын
@@jakepaulisgod8952 [citation needed]
The American conservative movement's Gettysburg Address.
Exactly🎉🎉🎉
The Great Communicator!!!
Have you read America's history.Traditionally Americans fought and died for freedom even it means fighting oversea.June 6,1944. Americans landed on Normandy in northern France along with our British & Canadian allies started the liberation of Europe.Tell me if you were living in 1944 would you say we must talk to Hitler to stop this world war. Remember freedom isn't free.That's why you along with those anti-war people can say what ever you want.Americans died so we have our freedom.
@rofl2966
2 жыл бұрын
Americans now won't fight and die for freedom anymore. They can't even figure out which bathroom to use. Everyone is too emotionally fragile and selfish.
Wow
🔥
Win one for the Gipper
Anyone know if there’s a Russian translation of this speech?
@RJStockton
3 жыл бұрын
I don't know if this can be translated into Russian.
@JimmyMakingitwork
3 жыл бұрын
I think there was one, but Hillary deleted it from her server.
@billolsen4360
3 жыл бұрын
@@JimmyMakingitwork LOL
@moritzsimon2151
3 жыл бұрын
@@JimmyMakingitwork serious question, are you serious?
The average Schmuck today wouldn’t understand a word of this.
Miss him
And that's why I'm asking bonzo to make a sequel
🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
To the American patriotic people Says IAM who Iam Amen and amen
🙏👍❤️🇺🇸
1964년 10월 27일
I'm 49, thanks for asking. This great nation has been fighting against islamo extremists ever since our founding, and we always will. We will live in peace with those who choose peace, we will kill those who desire to kill us. Step up and be counted., which are you? "From the halls of montazuma to the shores of tripoli...."
Look again. I mean real closely.
@dianerose2561
3 жыл бұрын
What did I miss?
@Nick-um2us
3 жыл бұрын
Yo whot up
@ethanhay1752
3 жыл бұрын
@@dianerose2561 idk not much prolly
hello from 2022
I support and will obey Ronald Reagan forever!
Disapointed that the video did not show the whole speech.
@mertgulturk6775
3 жыл бұрын
There is the full speech man kzread.info/dash/bejne/o4x21dl_lsuccbw.html
We have no where to go as Americans
what happened?
Wow. And still we tax at every chance and spend more than we have. Reagan knew this would be a problem.
@brandynhenry7107
2 жыл бұрын
The real first amendment should have been the federal seat has zero power outside interstate disputes
@TK-gm2zr
Жыл бұрын
Reagan ballooned the deficit to unprecedented levels. And passed what, at the time, was the largest tax increase in history. He was excellent at the performative parts of being president, though.
"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"
Best Governor of California, at least he never sold California out like Arnold did, buy a new 2021 Camaro not in Cal. Don't ya love it.
2:04
@cyruscheng499
Жыл бұрын
2:04
2:35 to 2:45 ouch
It is the quaintest of conceits that libertarianism feels Americans aren't selfish enough.
What ever happened to America.
Reagen bulldozed the communes on the 31 acre Morning Star ranch, then bought himself a 668 acre vacation ranch - that he rarely visited. Hmmm great use of indigenous people’s land. He also called an astronaut a “celluloid hero” …. Great leader and human being.
My letter catches 1 to my each if I would tell you my plan of Life Will work or my deliverance to my maker before you I take. Piece tonall offering has to be said to study this and get what i have of knowing I can't fin here but will for you I sold my roll down to the power to never come up before me % words of studying power points
He was a Democrat until he saw what they party was trying to do Likewise Thomas Sowell was a socialist. Education not indoctrination is important But it is wisdom from God that lights the way
OMG
Seems those bank failures were not so bad, huh? Stuff happens, keep the govt SMALLER, less bad stuff happens... heehee
If you're here because of the Marines being killed and China advancing ...join me on calling on the Great War Chief of Peace. May his words guide our spirit.
Better men than you and I believed in a supreme being, and credited that God for their freedoms. Men there in your land, and here in mine. As we have turned our back on that God, so have the blessing been removed. Using your logic, I see my point. When this country was not ashamed of God, it prospered as never before seen. As it slips to the mindest you portray, it is going down daily. So you may be right, we may be doomed shortly, not because there is no God, but becasue we refuse to honor Him.
Spoiler 2:24 -- we lost "that war". Also Goldwater didn't win. Somehow, the dire predictions did not come true. It has always astonished me that this point has not been the main lesson learned from this speech.
@frogger2513
3 жыл бұрын
Are you serious? Look at what’s going on now. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Nor did a die in a day. But after it’s death there was 1000 years of darkness. Study history beyond your life span.
@MrBudcole
3 жыл бұрын
We ABSOLUTELY lost that "war". Have you looked to the streets? Have you seen what is going on? Communism is EVERYWHERE! Our media is GONE! We have members of CONGRESS wanting to pack the Supreme Court, and give taxpayer money away to non-citizens, while making the citizens - the voters - pay for every penny of it. You know, every once in a while, it's a good idea to take your head out of your progressive ASS and take a look around.
@mkvalor
3 жыл бұрын
@@MrBudcole Don't make me laugh. The party whose ONLY tactic is dirty tricks. Voter suppression. Procedural shenanigans to never allow another party's legislation to come to the floor for debate. Calling a recess and then scheduling a secret legislative quorum to pass their bills. No wonder our economy keeps imploding with bubble after bubble. Your crowd has taught all our young men that the ends justify that means and that there is no reckoning. And then, if anybody hollers about it, you just use fear uncertainty and doubt and accuse them of being unpatriotic. What a load of crock! What was the highest Frderal Income Tax bracket during the greatest expansion our middle class has ever seen? Hint: any answer below 90% is incorrect.
@frogger2513
3 жыл бұрын
Move to Venezuela moron
@mkvalor
3 жыл бұрын
@@frogger2513 What a compelling argument, Mr. Weak Sauce.
Thank God not all Irish are full of hate for God as you. "IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom. We place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the Most High God. Whose blessing we invoke upon our arms, and we pray that no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by cowardice, in humanity, or rapine"
We do his name is trump
Trump 2020 🙏
@saltlife2366
3 жыл бұрын
fuck no 🤮🤮🤮
well maybe a few wrinkles, but I am still on the side of peace and fairness and not on the side of brutal aggression and murder ie America
RR never had an original idea in his life. He was a professional mouthpiece for the rich and powerful.
@dwizzleusa4202
2 жыл бұрын
Lol from a Democrat
@dannycardona211
2 жыл бұрын
True
@caslitt3435
Жыл бұрын
Commie..
proceeds to declare war und drugs xD
How am I the terrorist. I dont kill people, I dont invade small defenseless countries. When I look in the mirror I see a handsome man who is on the side of peace!
Deficit has a photo of Reagan next to it? Have you seen the deficit increase that our current president has created?
@mrleafbeef634
3 жыл бұрын
Which the deficit comes under the DNC party.
@mrleafbeef634
3 жыл бұрын
The minimum wage laws. The taxes the state regulations etc etc.
Its time to get right with Jesus. nobody is automatically gonna go to heaven at the end of it, we all have lied or stolen or had sex before marriage and the punishment is hell. Jesus died so you can get a clean slate and forgiveness of future sins if you repent of them if you commit them, so you receive the gift of forgiveness by following him. When you start you have to stop sinning, and follow his word and obey it. That’s following the Lord Jesus. Read the Bible
Ugh I have to watch this for school.
Was this speech before or after he permanently neutered the 2nd amendment?
Stand with Ukraine!
@Sir_TD
Жыл бұрын
Ukraine-Taiwan-Israel Will defeat neo-axis of Russia-China-Iran.
you show your ignorance with comments like that. It is no worse a religion than Judaism or Christianity.
Trump 2020
@saltlife2366
3 жыл бұрын
fuck no 🤮🤮🤮
@dionysius1b870
3 жыл бұрын
@@saltlife2366 fuck you! 2020 was stolen. We will be back 2020 and 2024 to save America from the socialist-communist daemon that hates us for being free! And will die to ensure freedom!
I never stopped seeing this man as an average actor who destroyed the environment. Handsome goes a long way for people who think hyped nationalism is solid policy
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He claimed at the very beginning to be a democrat most of his life, but he fails to acknowledge that the "southern strategy" employed in the early 60s was designed to created confusion between the terms politically liberal & economically liberal -completely different concepts. The old 'southern democratic' was the racist, slaveholding families of the south who needed big government for infrastructure like roads and electricity organized and paid for by government. Once those things were provided by government in their favor, they switched to the republican party and advocated for small government, even lower taxes for the rich, the dismantling of unions, toxic individualism, and a maintaining of institutional racism. Let's not forget to mention how much wasteful spending he invested in the star wars program that put our military spending at egregious levels compared to the rest of the world, and how much he interfered in the governments of South and Latin America, and the Middle East, for which war, economic & political instability -the consequences of which are still felt today as refugees continue to flee where the US has intervened the most. American history is way more complicated than one speech or a series of conspiracy theories. Ronald Reagan, an actor, helped the patriarchy do a bait and switch for the rich and left 80% of America living paycheck to paycheck while they blame the poor.
@Appalachianasshole41
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah except you are completely wrong.
@connors8739
3 жыл бұрын
Melody Hadden lmao same
@Somethingwicked1x
2 жыл бұрын
Exactly.He was a conartist.
His acting career was over so he did what theyvl all do Find God and wave the flag
Which Christian wackos do you condemn? Do you condemn Bush for attacking Iraq when Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11?
Crummy Actor
Seems those bank failures were not so bad, huh? Stuff happens, keep the govt SMALLER, less bad stuff happens... heehee