Ronald Reagan.
I saw him speak in 1984.
This is from 1964.
This message is for you.
A great man once said that evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
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.
We’re at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it’s been said 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.
Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
You weren’t made to fit in, my brothers and sisters, You were born to stand out. Set yourselves apart from this corrupt generation.
Be saints.
God bless you.
–Hold Connecticut, @Brian Cates Discussion Group, Telegram
Abe Lincoln once said
The ballot is stronger than the bullet