Reagan Speech at CPAC 1974

The American Conservative Union ^ | 1/25/1974 | Ronald Reagan

[mc5cents]

“We Will Be As a City upon a Hill” Governor Ronald Reagan (R-CA) Conservative Political Action Conference Washington, DC

January 25, 1974

There are three men here tonight I am very proud to introduce. It was a year ago this coming February when this country had its spirits lifted as they have never been lifted in many years. This happened when planes began landing on American soil and in the Philippines, bringing back men who had lived with honor for many miserable years in North Vietnam prisons. Three of those men are here tonight, John McCain, Bill Lawrence and Ed Martin. It is an honor to be here tonight. I am proud that you asked me and I feel more than a little humble in the presence of this distinguished company.

There are men here tonight who, through their wisdom, their foresight and their courage, have earned the right to be regarded as prophets of our philosophy. Indeed they are prophets of our times. In years past when others were silent or too blind to the facts, they spoke up forcefully and fearlessly for what they believed to be right. A decade has passed since Barry Goldwater walked a lonely path across this land reminding us that even a land as rich as ours can’t go on forever borrowing against the future, leaving a legacy of debt for another generation and causing a runaway inflation to erode the savings and reduce the standard of living. Voices have been raised trying to rekindle in our country all of the great ideas and principles which set this nation apart from all the others that preceded it, but louder and more strident voices utter easily sold clichés. snip

Read whole speech at source link.

[mc5cents]

I thought that after 3 1/2 years of the abomination called the Obama administration that a re-reading of this wonderful speech could serve as refreshing reminder of how great this country really is and help us to forget for a few moments how far we sunk when Obama was elected to the great office that this great man once occupied.

[fieldmarshaldj]

And just think, one of those men Reagan was introducing was responsible for letting Zero slide into office.

[stylin19a]

no politician thinks or talks like that anymore....