Welcome to the Reagan Renaissance

"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.
We will preserve for our children this,
the last best hope of man on earth,
or we will sentence them to take the last step
into a thousand years of darkness."
Ronald Reagan, 1964

    Relying on his innate sense of history and his faith in the Divine Hand of Providence, Ronald Reagan did two things with these words in what historians will come to recognize as the most important speech of the twentieth century. First, Ronald Reagan pointedly picked up the gauntlet in the battle for freedom, even though it was Barry Goldwater that was running for President. Second, he warned us of the consequences of not preserving freedom.

    Reagan knew that it was freedom that made America great and that freedom is what made America the last best hope of man on earth. At the time of the speech, freedom was under domestic attack from the growth of our own government as a result of socialism and freedom was under foreign attack from the Soviet Union. The speech shows that he intended to deal with both. When carefully read, "A Time For Choosing" becomes a blue print for reaching the Reagan Renaissance. His subsequent speeches repeatedly echo the same messages. President Reagan clearly believed the United States was headed down the wrong path, a path leading inevitably to tyranny and another dark ages. Equally clear, he believed there was still time to change course and steer a path toward freedom and renaissance..