“You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man’s age-old dream-the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.”
-Ronald Reagan
October 27, 1964
It’s a great speech, and so relevant today. I just wish one of the current candidates offered any significant amount of individual freedom. Reagan may not have been ideal, but the ideals he talks about in this speech are.