It's A Simple Answer After All

"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.

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[theadvocateforlife]

This video makes me SO proud to be an American!

[TheLastCobalt]

Reagan wouldve mopped Obama's ass

[Robert Tovar]

Reagan's corps would of win Obama

[JordanClunn]

Polls show that Reagan would have won America by 15% of the vote, if an election was taken, today.

[hotshotsunnyz]

Appeasement is there by the liberals to the same bad guys,in this case,islamic jihadists.There is also appeasement for communists like Hugo Chavez,Che etc.Take a look at your democratic government supported by liberals.In the name of freedom and democracy they ousted the dictators who are in truce with US and IR and placed MB as the govt in N.Africa.MB credo says "Allah is our objective,the Quran is our law, Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations."

[SuperJohn12354]

this is what happened u surrended to China

[47esq]

In the first place Ronald had integrity and was a patriot and second he would never ever have used Americas most valuable asset "our military " on hearsay media propaganda.

[ClassicCartoonsGuy]

It is true that the enemy at that time was communism, but his words ring true in more than just that though. Iran has called the United States the Big Satan and Israel is the Little Satan; Ahmadinejad has stated that he wants to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. The enemy may not be communism, but Reagan's words still ring true; it's just a new enemy that we face now, and that enemy is Islam.

[TheMountaineer1776]

It's a shame that people don't have the courage determination, and willpower to even utter words such as these today.

"Who know's just maybe someone is out there ready to stand even alone if necessary, for the truth and speak it".

[iamslknick78]

He was in the Army Air Corp you twit.

[1000KMD]

47esq....we learn from history, though he was refering to the Cold War, the circumstances are very similar today!

They have been feeding us bits and peices of socialism since this speech was made...just as Reagan said. And look at us today...so close to fully being a socialist country!

[english sunset]

Ill just say Moroni and move on.