Ronald Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" speech October 27, 1964
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- Full Title: Ronald Reagan's "A Time for Choosing speech for Barry Goldwater campaign on October 27, 1964 before a televised audience
Transcript:
www.reaganlibrary.gov/timecho...
Production Date: 10/27/1964
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Contact(s): Ronald Reagan Library (LP-RR), 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley, CA 93065-0600
Phone: 800-410-8354, Fax: 805-577-4074, Email: reagan.library@nara.gov
A conservative from California endorsing a campaign against a liberal from Texas. How about that?
Lol...
My, my how times have changed! 😄
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Reagan was probably one of the best speakers ever totally unlike the retard in there now ruining america
Wow. Great point.
No teleprompter, and hardly looking at his notes. This is what speaking with absolute conviction in what you believe and say looks like.
Absolutely
Why are former communists the greatest leaders of the right? Reagan. Trump. Well, I guess just those two that I can think of
@@jasonmorgan8110 yeah I don't know how much Ronald Reagan would appreciate you calling him a communist... Donald Trump when you do business in New York City You better kiss Democrat ass. Neither one of them were communist.
@@jasonmorgan8110 You're saying Trump and Reagan are communists? Wow.....
@@iamthemiracle81 no illiterate moron. Former communists
not right vs. left but good against evil.right now.
Ronald Reagan was one of the best Presidents in my life time and I'm 77 years old.
MJO you are so right and I'm 74 we didn't realize how good we had it
He warned us and now, here we are.
Everyone in this country needs to listen to this , it is as relevant today as it was in 1964.
@Annett Thier so what is your Instagram id?
You are so right, I am sharing this speech with those I know. Hope others do to.
More relevant.
I agree
Instablaster
I watch this periodically just for a glimmer of hope. Reagan is unmatched in his speaking ability.
He was an actor and knew that the timing of his speech and tone was important. In my opinion he had the best speech writer. I love hearing his voice. The evil ones couldn’t tolerate the thought of us having freedom, food, good education and security. Our government had to put a hit on him. He was the closest to President Trump in courage. The others on the right ran for self betterment, $$$. Hearing this reminds me how much respect I have for President Trump and how disgusting and low the Satanist Party have gone. There aren’t too many in politics that will fight for us and America like President Reagan & Trump. GOD save us all if another Democrat gets in. Hillary was to be the last President and 3/4 of the World population was to see their end. If this sounds like a joke research The Georgia Guide Stones and find what was planned in the United Nations Agenda’s by year. The remaining people would be slaves and remotely controlled. The elite didn’t take the jab but they sure want you to. Research what was is in there, see their evil. Plenty of Doctors on TH-cam to tell you. The rest are paid.
@@wendyflentge9068 Wendy, I know of The Georgia Guide Stones and the global elites' agenda for what they euphemistically call "sustainable development?" I won't say what it really is or my comment will be deleted but we both know. Your comment is so cogent and true that I can't believe The You Tube Thought Police haven't deleted it. Wait and see what Biden's Minister of Truth, The Goose Stepping Mary Poppins of Propaganda does to further stifle the free exchange of ideas. We are living in very depressing times.
Pretty apropos now
Biden is the greatest speaker in the world
@@waterheaterservices 🤯 I love it when Biden speaks publicly. It's the only time I ever get to see an adult drool themself
This wasn't just a speech. It was prophesy. One of the great speeches of American history and foreshadowing sea changes in American politics that are still storming today.
History repeats itself when we let ourselves become ignorant and distracted.
Amen
You are absolutely right.
this is a false prophet... made to look like a prophet... the masons plan this world hundreds of years ahead.. following a course... the so called "great work"... that's why it seems to you nothing has changed... they are playing off of the same theme, off of the same tactics to rule over the masses... divide and conquer, order out of chaos... oh sleeper when will you wake up? how long will the spirit of the antichrist be able to deceive and fool you into believing the speeches of his puppets more than in the word of God, and Jesus Christ himself, who actually gave himself up for you? none of these politicians have done or will do anything close to what Jesus has already done 2000 years ago... these people won't save you.. only Jesus Christ can!
Agreed.
If I didn't know better, I'd say Ronald Reagan was a Bona-Fide Psychic or a frelling time traveller?
He got it so right back then and he's still right today!
For some reason, I believe exactly the very same thing. He was and is so unique, I mean, look where we are right now.
It's Biblical
I miss Reagan and his presidency.
Possibly born from above as the Bible says, as he saved those people particularly females from drowning.
AMEN!! What a fantastic speech and great leader who truly does “lead” in a straightforward manner with the his no-nonsense, transparent communication, easily understood by the young, yet perplexing and confusing to the arrogant secular left who fail us time and again in not offering us any solutions for our complex issues explaining regularly that the conservatives are to blame for every problem unresolved, this, however is due to the Leftist voices have no real solutions for an ever growing country. Great comments.
As a foreigner I think to myself, "How sad for America to have travelled from this great President then, to Biden today". 😔
No, You should think. How stupid the Republican Party is to canceled Ronald Reagan to Follow Donald Trump.
@@McCov1 McCain, Bush, Chainy, Romney. Do any of those stuffed shirts even hold a candle to this man? Have any of them, at their proudest moment, ever uttered words as strong as this man's endorsement of another man?
The Republicans abandoned Reagan long before the 21st century. And the Democrats abandoned Liberalism for Socialism long before that. For as long as I can remember, this government has acted in its own interest, as if the government and the nation itself were two rival entities. Trump and Biden are just poetry in action: A perfect end to this perfect failure of a government.
Don't try and pin this on Trump. Trump is no more self aware than the moldy Muppet currently keeping the oval-orifice warm with his cold decaying body.
Oh, most Americans are feeling this as well! A revolution will happen if The greedy Socialists remain in power. Any Democrat if elected in November 2022 isa red flag that elections are stolen.
@@anitaguess2986 The last election was already stolen, and god knows how many before that. But it makes no difference. The farther out of sync with reality our government becomes, the more revolutionary forces grow. Every time they resort to force, every time they lie, every time they cheat, they become more distant and delusional.
Our democracy is built on compromise. As the gap grows, the two sides become radical. I look forward to the death of this Wiemar Republic. It'll be Fascism vs Communism, just like the old days. I know what side I'm on.
@@McCov1 name one thing that Trump did that wronged America or the world.
A gifted man. We miss you Mr. Reagan. RIP
Timeless words.
Hi.
@@Mr.Caring Oh, how these words should come back to haunt us!!!!!!!.
@@michaelweizer7794 ?
Reagan was talking to every generation . Including ours and the those of the future . A truly insightful man. He not only paid attention to detail, he understood what those details meant .
He Was Great.
Wake up wake up!!
He was a fraud. Railing against Social Security and Medicare, telling the slaves to trust the benevolence of their greedy corporate masters. He never spoke about the poor wages of the working people, that which created the need for federal aid, relied upon primarily by Red States to this day. Then his bullshit war with Russia, now supported by the GOP. He made many claims without evidence and used a few anecdotes to paint the whole country as a welfare state. His debt and deficit fear mongering was pure nonsense.
One of the best, if not THE best, political speeches ever delivered.
Yes definitely the 2nd one is when they bombed Pearl Harbor
This is a good one but you clearly have not heard the early ones
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@@klebercoelhomoreira9316 no
Trump at Mount Rushmore
In the very first election when I could vote, this is the man I cast my ballot for way back in 1980. I have never regretted that vote.
Me also
It was the first president that made me feel strong enough to get out to vote. I was 28yo.
Reagan was amazing.. I could listen to him speak for hours and never be bored but hang on each word.
The best President of my lifetime, and I was born in 1965. Reagan was more than a President, he was also a prophet. Today we live in the shadows of his warnings 58 years ago. I pray we all wake up and speak out about the way things are right now, before we're not allowed to speak at all.
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I was born in 1953. I had no idea that Reagan played such a prominent part in American national politics in the early 60's.
Yes I was also born in 53 and I remember how important it was to get to the polls November 1980 as I was moving out of state. The good ol days. I'm just grief stricken at where our country is going and I served 10 years in the military as well. 🙏🙏
Good job of describing the current political situation.
Agreed
Talking about government overspending... Can't help but think of Trump doing away with the Budget Control Act and doubling the national debt.
@Jeff Hornick well said, well said!
Malevolent marxist Obongo, doubled nation's debt, from 10, to 20 trillion, those QEs were a disaster.1995 was last bal budget.Spkr Gingrich' contract with America☆
This is so true today. He said freedom is a fragile state. This is a prophecie over 50 years. And here we are.
It’s 2022 and this speech is so real for right now, what a great man👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
A great man Ronald Reagan
He is the anti thesis of Joe Biden.
A thoroughly decent man!
@@markjohnson9455 Barack Obama.
He is the 'Rolls Royce' of USA 'Ronald Reagan' well driven speech.
Amazing man, all this can be seen today he has been warning American's with his elegance!
Indeed,
They don't make them like THE GIPPER anymore.
He's a scumbag politician are you kidding?
It was in the City of Eurika, CA. That Mr. Ronald Reagan First gave this speech…..My husband was responsible for convincing him that this would be a large
Crowd! There was a full auditorium, plus several hundred outside!….I greeted him as he & his escorts brought him through the back door….offered him a chocolate donut! He gave his Big Grin & said “ I am far too nervous to eat it!! Got to give a Big Speech”. And he did!! Anyone who hears This Speech,
Must realize he was far ahead of the other Politicians, Telling It As It Is…! So thankful To have had the honor of meeting him!,,,,,,,also feel the same about Barrry Goldwater!
I was a Senior in High School when I watched this on Television. I was impressed. My parents were utterly amazed.
I most certainly miss this Hero of America!
I first heard this Ronald Reagan speech when he gave it and I was awe struck and so impressed. It would have been my second presidential election campaign. I decided at that time if he ever ran for POTUS he had my vote.. . . and he did. I have never forgotten that speech. He so right and I would guess he would be turning in his grave at what Biden and the democrats are doing now in 2021. May God rest his soul. I miss him. We need another Ronald Reagan in this day and age.
I agree, Reagan was the best guy I ever voted for until Trump came along. A lot of people didn't like him
I agree, Reagan was the best guy I ever voted for until Trump came along. A lot of people didn't like him
Because his brash personality but enough people did. I would vote for Trump again.
Because his brash personality but enough people did. I would vote for Trump again.
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Honour to President Reagan ❤🇺🇲
He already sounds like a president here, even though he wouldn't be for another seventeen years.
You cannot fault this speech, it’s one of his best
Michael John Faulkner 💯🇺🇸💯🇺🇸💯🇺🇸💯🇺🇸💯🇺🇸💯🇺🇸
@@thepatriot8514 P00pp
@@joselitogalupe3655 says a shiite like u
It’s beautiful. Every word he says is spot on, not the political climate of today .
Ronald Reagan and JFK were the most overrated Presidents in American history.
We need you now more than ever Sir. RIP
THAT MAN FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!
I loved president Reagan. I also love President Trump ❤️❤️ I guess I am a republican. Used to be that when a family needed help the church you went to would be right there to help.
Right?
I was in high school when Reagan was President. I remember how proud I was to be an American with such a great leader. This wonderful country has fallen so far due to inept leadership. We need leaders with integrity. Make our leaders accountable for their terrible decisions. Bring honesty and integrity back .
Agree, and, also, I feel this should apply to leaders on both sides of the aisle.
You should have that same pride for Trump.
@@bowencreer3922 trump has no integrity
You were blinded by his speeches...he was a piece of shyt leader who didn't give af about ppl of color especially black people...he only catered to whites and the upper class. And didn't the mf also have Alzheimer's his entire presidency?? Take those Nostalgia goggles off sir ✌🏾
Reagans words ring even truer today than when he said it! It's uncanny!
I still hear old liberals over the years saying he was the worst president, and here we are with their candidates, 1 of whom can't even navigate up the stairs.
Yes, very sad all the warnings he gave are true today. America looks like a joke😪🤬 They literally have brought down the country as we knew it prior to NObama! Even Slick Willy wasn't this embarrassing with his cigar and Monica. Once Liberty is lost it cannot be regained
Ronald Reagan is an absolute legend.
Reagan was the best and we could use his strength now.
This hits hard. A speech to leave you speechless. More important now than ever.
agreed!
It does hit hard.. message is as terrifying today as it was then imagine
@@adamlynch6954 cause you sleeping sheeps never woke up from the American dream the masons play on the masses for centuries now... always the same theme...
You really don't hear speeches like this anymore.
They just don’t make em like this anymore, unfortunately. I haven’t seen a speech like this the entire time I’ve been alive.
Such a great man!
That was my 9th birthday. I am 65 now and look back on every video I've seen the Ronald Wilson Reagan spoke, he was the best President speaker before and since.
That's why the adorned him with the name "the great communicator". Never before or since has any president come close to rivaling his great nature and gental good humor. We could sure use someone like him today.
By far the greatest president of my 63 years. Reagan was a visionary and we see the evidence of this all around us today. This man had a very powerful influence on me and this speech was the greatest political speech ever... nothing comes close. He nailed it🎯💯💥❤❤❤
Flawless speech that really hits home being South African. Although directed to the American people this speech, even today serves as a warning to the world. A bloated, inept, corrupt riddled government that is ever expanding on welfare policies at the expense of the tax payer...We are witnessing all this in South Africa!!! This speech is worth all the plaudits it gets
What is going on in South Africa? Do you know if they have the same problems like America?
@@markjohnson9455 We have been regressing since the mid 2000's and government has become bigger and bigger. I am South African and I absolutely love my country but our crime levels are border line insane! especially Gender based violence. As for government corruption, I wouldn't even know where to start yet we keep expanding on welfare programs in a country with an ever shrinking middle class. Like in the USA politicians keep pushing the "race" and "identity politics" narrative which distracts people from real tangible issues
@@njabulombuyazi5132 Crime spiked under Reagan. The 80s had the biggest crime rates in American history.
Reagan ballooned the US deficit and the debt while cutting taxes for the rich. Reagan's administration was corrupt and it was caught up with the Iran contra scandal.
john lewis bullshit
The prescient wisdom of his speeches not only panned out through the Carter years and in the rebound in his great Presidency, but we see the same things in even greater portion today. Dear God, please send us more Ronald Reagans!
He was true to the office he was entrusted.I love him for that.
He started amnesty.. He followed the globalist plan
1st time I ever heard this. I'm crying. I'm not even sure why...
Cause you are sad now it's over..now we have to fight for freedom again
i believe your tears are just one of the many reasons why he was called "The Great Communicator" .
@@notvaxed :'(
Same here. I think they are tears of frustration that truth could be so long acknowledged and so long ignored.
I had the same looking at a Norman Rockwell print at my veterinarian . Tears came in the waiting room as I looked at how America used to be through a child's eyes . Painted by a man we admired for his love of God and family .
This is what a president sounds like. Common sense in all its reasoning. Share this speech, and remember the people expect our tax dollars need reasoning.
Yeah I know
Senator Biden will save us
One of best speeches I've ever heard 👂 🗣
He is the greatest US president that ever lived. Actually there’s no words that can describe how big this man was..
That can be debated.
We need someone like him now
RONALD REAGAN IS ONE OF THE TOP TEN PRESIDENTS OF ALL TIME.GREAT SPEAKERT. BRILLIANT
top ten? more like top 5
P.E. & Sport
This man was iron and steel we will never see anyone like him again
Great man and very true speech. People should listen and learn from this speech.
This is an excellent and powerful political speech from 1964 and highly relevant today in 2022!
This is a leader, period....
I loved this man one of my favorite presidents !! I'm a Canadian but growing up Ronald Reagan was one of my idols ! Most kids my age were in the Star wars I was into US politics I've always loved and respected the American Constitution !! I truly believe the American Constitution was and is the most important piece of legislation in the world it gave other countries the blueprint for freedom and a Democratic society !! Ronald Reagan believed in the Constitution and knew it had to be protected for everyone's freedom !! This man could give a speech like no other !! Growing up I dressed up as Ronald Reagan at least three times for Halloween !!
One of the greatest speeches ever made and relevant today.
Share it again and again we need this now more than ever!!!!
"A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts." -James Madison (1792)
This was no ordinary speech. This was magical foreknowledge, one of Ronald's best speeches.
This speech is still the one I keep coming back to because hearing it just makes you think about the affairs of the world. This is that rare, timeless speech that I honestly think even eclipses FDR's "Fear Itself" speech and that one was a good one too. This one; however, invokes that same optimistic spirit and in turn galvanizes any and all who support the cause of individual freedom.
I think Reagan would be disappointed by the government bailouts and the stimulus checks. He cautioned against taxing and the unwelcomed presence of the government seems to have been forgotten. The ideas of individual responsibility and personal freedom seem to have disappeared from our country. What went wrong?
Government help comes out of your back pocket, only you get back less than they took. Governments DO NOT make money, they collect taxes and give some of the people (voters only) what they think they want. Ronald Reagan was a
hawk and the Russians knew it and backed down when he was President and
he was better than Donald ever was or would be.
I'll tell you what went wrong, we got too soft. We let far left and anti-christianity people run our country, we let our guard down. We stopped worshipping God and began to accept government over freedom
@@bskelton8712 I think your wrong in comparing Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was good with words as well as his actions, Donald Trump was someone who was just as great, yes, rough around the edges, but his vision for our country and his love for freedom and God makes him top tier, up there with Reagan, Calvin Coolidge and other great Presidents.
@@illbehim Donald was great when he was buddy/buddy with Putin? Reagan knew who the enemy was and let them know USA was not going to stand for commie bull
People became complacent
Reagan was president when I came of age. He is the reason that I am, and always will be, a republican. Other republican presidents may come and go, but there will never be another like Reagan. His vision of what our country could be and should be is what we desperately need now and forever.
This needs to be listened too Sept 2021
This is one of if the best speeches in American history.
The struggle is real. The numbers have grown exponentially but the struggle is the same. Freedom is the most costly and precious idea.
Gold, this comment, pure gold.
Man, how i miss him!
Simply the best.
When Presidents were true leaders and could speak and relate to the people
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When presidents were leaders, instead of mascots.
And now we have "We hold these truths to be. . . you know how it goes". I have my kids listen to Reagan and they can't believe that we have Biden now, but we once had Reagan.
We also had buchanan when once we had washington
we need you so much now
OMG this speech gives me the chills. So much truth. This is happening today people trading security for freedom. I rather have freedom.
It is said that those who would trade freedom for security end up with neither!
@@jillbassett5167 Who was that that said that.. People on social media quoted that and said it was by someone I can't recall. But your so right Jill.
@@jillbassett5167 yea the patriot act is a disgrace to the 1st amendment
Sure do miss this guy. He was a national treasure.
Not only it’s more relevant now than ever, it is also that much more urgent.
Back in '64, my cousin (age 16 at the time) campaigned for Barry Goldwater. She was probably the only kid in Franklin Square campaigning for him, maybe even the only kid in Nassau County who didn't support Johnson.
We need him more today than ever before
I’m not sure he would even make it in today’s Democratic Party.
Phenomenal content, powerful presentation and as relevant now as in 1964.
To those who gave this post a thumbs down. An Italian Salute to you!!
Me too....
Agreed...
Awesome speech!
The man for whom I have only respect to offer - President Ronald Reagan! Thank you Mr President you continue to inspire us.
This is the truest presidential speech of all time apply this speech and fast forward 57 years later. And think if the games from unemployment and so forth occurring
Most Powerful Speech I've ever heard and prevalent 60yrs later
What a great speach. I am going to miss you All your honesty is so true.
60 years later this is still relevant
I watched this speech on TV in 1964. I was a lefty then, and it started me on the road to becoming a conservative. Reagan was a truly great man and a great leader.
At 74 this the first time I have ever heard of Berry Goldwater’s concerns and generosity towards others and his love for this country. As a teenager in 1964 I was naïve and uninformed like most kids then and now. I heard from TV and adults that Goldwater would only get us in a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. So it is when you only get one side of the story. Just like today when Russia is painted as the bad guy and the US government run Ukraine is the good guy when with a little more information the truth is the opposite.
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What an interesting way to get to your point that Ukrainians are bad!
Please tell me what freedoms they have in Russia?
Please tell me what freedoms we have in the USA that they don't have in Ukraine?
I choose our own destiny! Thank you President Reagan 💕🙏
This is freaking brilliant speech writing. 🙌✨
Back when giving a speech meant actually giving a speech. Impressive talent to command a room, impressive talent when it comes to pace, volume and intonation, and impressive speech in its own right. Possibly one of the best in history, period, and no less relevant than it was almost 60 years ago.
I'm a centrist, and I find much to agree with.
One of the greatest speeches of all time
If only the USA could get another President Regan again!
Reagan is the first president I can remember well! I miss him so much, he was a man of high intelligence and great character. His policy catapulted us out of the Carter recession, ended the cold war and because of his policy I was able to wear new shoes at school and eat lunch everyday. God bless Ronald Reagan and his beloved wife Nancy ❤️
Damn....this man is a legend.
if i didn't know i would swear i was hearing today's way happening in 1964. you dewey clemons and all that think and believe as you, and i do, are 100% correct and true in the fact this speech is very much so relevant today as it was in 1964. to uses your words dewey, thank you. just to throw this out there i wasn't even born yet, 1965 is my year
They were statesmen, powerful, significant context, prepared without failure, assured confident two Political leaders from both ends of the spectrum of political right and left. Both able to find mutual agreement in an exchange of Democratic ideas, President Reagan and PM Bob Hawke compare to the present era and ask yourself, "is there any comparison".......
The greatest patriot that ever lived. Truly prophetic.
Word! Very stirring remarks, especially the conclusion.
...wait, yes I do! I'm cryin bec he could be speaking about now. what a look into the future! but HOW could he know? How do you explain the striking similarities? If you believe in destiny if you believe in the cosmos if you believe in ANYthing you got to believe that's how we got to President Donald J Trump. Mr. President please don't leave us now, 4 more years! Angels out there hear our prayers from ALL around the world! Help us. We need help now more than ever! FIGHT FOR TRUMP!!
when Ronald Regan shook Donald Trumps hand at an official engagement back in the last 1980's President Regans said then i am shaking the hand of a future President of this country check it out it used to be on u-tube unless the cancel culture has got to it
Because history always repeats itself
Trump is a theft and a crook. You have been bamboozled.
Time machines r needed precisely to relive moments like these 🥺.....what I would give to have been there when he gave this speech 😪🔥 💯
Everyone needs to hear this today as we’re on the brink of default with every word he said ringing true in the decades since. And here we are with the youth confused, believing this socialist system to be capitalism, watching it fail as socialism does and taking the wrong lesson from it in the end. How depressing. We were once a free nation.
We could really use a Ronald Reagan today.😔
Today he would be considered a socialist