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2019年quot;A Time for Choosingquot-范文汇编 　　ronald reagan: a time for choosing (aka the speech) program announcer: ladies and gentlemen, we take pride in presenting a thoughtful address by ronald reagan. mr. reagan: reagan: thank you. thank you very much. thank you and good evening. the sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasnt been provided with a script. as a matter of fact, i have been permitted to choose my own words and discuss my own ideas regarding the choice that we face in the next few weeks. i have spent most of my life as a democrat. i recently have seen fit to follow another course. i believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. now, one side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. the line has been used, weve never had it so good. as for the peace that we would preserve, i wonder who among us would like to approach the wife or mother whose husband or son has died in south vietnam and ask them if they think this is a peace that should be maintained indefinitely. do they mean peace, or do they mean we just want to be left in peace? there can be no real peace while one american is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. were at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and its been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. well i think its time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the founding fathers. not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, we dont know how lucky we are. and the cuban stopped and said, how l