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October 1, 1964
A Time For Change
The Speech that changed America.
By Ronald Wilson Reagan
LOS ANGELES - I am going to talk of controversial things. I make no apology for this.
It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us
by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments
on the capacity of mankind for self government."
This idea? that government was beholden to the people, that it had no
other source of power is still the newest, most unique idea in all the
long history of man's relation to man. 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...
Go to "The Speech".
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