Ronald Reagan: “A Time for Choosing”

( 1964 ) Commentary by Chester Pach, Ohio University

“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 capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.” - “A Time for Choosing”
“I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down—up [to] … the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.” - “A Time for Choosing”
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. So governments' programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.” - “A Time for Choosing”

Ronald Reagan (Library of Congress)

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