“There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace -- and you can have it in the next second -- surrender”
“Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face -- that their policy of accommodation is appeasement”
“and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender”
“And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don't speak for the rest of us”
“You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin -- just in the face of this enemy?”
“Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world?”
“The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain”
“Where, then, is the road to peace? Well it's a simple answer after all...You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." "There is a point beyond which they must not advance."
—Ronald Reagan, ‘A Time for Choosing’, Oct 1964
—Ronald Reagan, ‘A Time for Choosing’, Oct 1964
