This speech by Ronald Reagan was given in 1964. I have listened to it a number of times but it always amazes me how relevant it is today even after 45 years. It really is shocking and it is a reminder of what it is conservatives both believe in and are fighting for in opposition to today’s crop of liberal/progressives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt1fYSAChxs
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Re: The greatest speech in Modern American History
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Originally Posted by Ferd
This speech by Ronald Reagan was given in 1964. I have listened to it a number of times but it always amazes me how relevant it is today even after 45 years. It really is shocking and it is a reminder of what it is conservatives both believe in and are fighting for in opposition to today’s crop of liberal/progressives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt1fYSAChxs
I just listened to the "tear down this wall" speech. He was an amazing speaker.
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Re: The greatest speech in Modern American History
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Originally Posted by Ferd
This speech by Ronald Reagan was given in 1964. I have listened to it a number of times but it always amazes me how relevant it is today even after 45 years. It really is shocking and it is a reminder of what it is conservatives both believe in and are fighting for in opposition to today’s crop of liberal/progressives.
Re: The greatest speech in Modern American History
They were both great speakers.
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Re: The greatest speech in Modern American History
JFK's Inaugurall address was impressive too. I thought Reagan's response after Challenger was brilliant. Though not in complete agreement with the philosophy, John Galt's speech is hard to beat (in the novel Atlas Shrugged), the courtroom scene in To Kill a Mocking Bird (1962) was something else...
Churchill's critical speech to the House of Commons in 1940... William Wilberforce's abolition speech I hear was one of the tops (no audio of course), and anything by Abe Lincoln!
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The one our President gave today was pretty good.
Sam, sometimes your dry wit just gets me to laughing.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV