Once again today on Uncommon Knowledge, Mark Steyn and Rob Long listen to Reagan’s 1964 speech, “A Time For Choosing.” The Gipper, relevant even now.

Ronald Reagan: You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.
Mark Steyn: What Reagan saw is that a great power has to rise to the challenges that history imposes on it. And it doesn’t have any choice in the matter, or it won’t stay a great power for long – it won’t even stay free for long. The motto of my state – “Live Free or Die – the idea that this is somehow a battle cry…No! It’s the reality of daily life.

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