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aeromill  ·  3141 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what do you think is the best speech in history?

I love this speech by Reagan about confronting the USSR with strength. Always gives me chills.





user-inactivated  ·  3141 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Holy shit that was amazing. When people talk about Reagan being amazing that's what they should show to back it up.

Teddy Roosevelt said it 75 years prior as well here:

Of course, in one sense, the first essential for a man’s being a good citizen is his possession of the home virtues of which we think when we call a man by the emphatic adjective of manly. No man can be a good citizen who is not a good husband and a good father, who is not honest in his dealings with other men and women, faithful to his friends and fearless in the presence of his foes, who has not got a sound heart, a sound mind, and a sound body; exactly as no amount of attention to civil duties will save a nation if the domestic life is undermined, or there is lack of the rude military virtues which alone can assure a country’s position in the world. In a free republic the ideal citizen must be one willing and able to take arms for the defense of the flag, exactly as the ideal citizen must be the father of many healthy children. A race must be strong and vigorous; it must be a race of good fighters and good breeders, else its wisdom will come to naught and its virtue be ineffective; and no sweetness and delicacy, no love for and appreciation of beauty in art or literature, no capacity for building up material prosperity can possibly atone for the lack of the great virile virtues.