It was October of 1964, when then spokesman Ronald Reagan stepped into the national political spotlight with his now-famous “A Time for Choosing Speech,” delivered in support of presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
His words stand in stark contrast to those of many of America’s elected officials today, as this video by the Republican Study Committee shows.
In his speech, Reagan described the choice confronting Americans and laid out his own political philosophy:
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.
As Congress and President Barack Obama continue to expand government’s reach into American life, it’s worth looking back on Reagan’s speech and recalling his warning about a government that grows beyond its constitutional limits:
A government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.
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Awesome. Easily the best president of the last half-century, and perhaps of all of the 20th Century.
The real question is where is our Reagan today? We need a leader like him moreso today than even in his time. We need someone who can communicate with the masses and expose the leftist fallacies and lead us out of this wilderness. I pray he (or she) emerges victorious in the next Presidential election.
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