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December 02, 2009
There is Only One Way For Peace ~ President Ronald Reagan
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Alexander Hamilton
Let's set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace--and you can have it in the next second--surrender.
Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in 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 and 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 are retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he has heard voices pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Red than dead," or as one commentator put it, he would 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." There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.
Wild Thing's comment.........
This is such an inpirational speech by Reagan.His prophetic words ring with deafening truth today.
Our Veterans and our troops today are liberties sons and daughters.
Posted by Wild Thing at December 2, 2009 05:50 AM
Comments
Peace is the biggest suckers word in the bible.
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape
Posted by: BobF at December 2, 2009 07:55 AM
What a contrast between Reagan and obama. obama would have given a speech at Concord and bored the British to death. Ronald Reagan came at a badly needed time. Now we are in dire need of another Reagan.
Posted by: TomR at December 2, 2009 11:09 AM
Great Points, But thats the difference between a Real American and a Communist.
Posted by: Mark at December 2, 2009 02:41 PM
One more thing. Oh God I miss Ronald Reagan. He was right each generation of Americans are tested to preserve their freedom. We are being tested right now. And if we don't come together Right Now, freedp, will be gone forever.
Posted by: Mark at December 2, 2009 06:22 PM
BobF., thank you for the Bible verse.
I miss Reagan so much. If we could just get
someone elected that was even 75% like him
it would make a difference. LOL Of course that
person has to run for office first, but it is
a hope and dream at least.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 2, 2009 07:23 PM
