"Evil Empire" Speech by President Reagan - Address to the National Association of Evangelicals

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  • Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
  • Address to the National Association of Evangelicals at Sheraton Twin Towers Hotel, Orlando, FL on 3/8/83.
    Table of Contents:
    0:00 Introduction
    1:07 Thank You For Your Prayers
    2:50 A Story…
    4:50 American Experiment In Democracy
    6:00 America Is Good
    11:15 Intrusion By Government
    13:22 A Constitutional Amendment
    17:40 A Great Spiritual Awakening In America
    20:00 The Moral Evils of Our Past
    23:30 We Will Never Compromise Our Standards
    24:30 Peace Through Strength
    27:25 Let Us Pray
    29:16 Beware The Temptation Of Pride
    For more information on the ongoing works of President Reagan's Foundation, visit us at www.reaganfoundation.org

Комментарии • 291

  • @SheepdogColumbus
    @SheepdogColumbus 9 лет назад +502

    "Sometimes their voices are louder than ours, but they are not yet the majority."
    If that statement doesn't put where we are today, in perspective, you must be the "majority".

  • @RiwenX
    @RiwenX 12 лет назад +35

    I'm so glad American people in '80 and '84 thought otherwise. Also, to the guy who said communism is not a big deal: clearly, you have never lived under a communist regime.
    I, as a Hungarian, would like to thank Ronald Reagan for everything he did to defeat the evil empire. God bless Ronald Reagan and every true Christian in the United States.

  • @Christossavva
    @Christossavva 10 лет назад +122

    This speech resonates to any citizen of the world that thirsts for freedom. Reagan remains the ultimate symbol of freedom

  • @1windycityguy
    @1windycityguy 11 лет назад +146

    (continuation) "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." End quote
    Ronald Reagan

  • @mikec.2360
    @mikec.2360 7 лет назад +183

    I may be an atheist but Reagan has a way with words.

  • @johnfox137
    @johnfox137 10 лет назад +94

    So many things have come to life since this speech it's scary to watch

  • @nghnino
    @nghnino 14 лет назад +16

    ONE OF THE GREATEST person in our time, the Man responsible in Ending Nuclear Nightmare for the sake of future generations, Thank you Mr.President Reagan thank you!

  • @alancooper5
    @alancooper5 10 лет назад +146

    This was the greatest president since I've been alive! America Desperately needs another leader like him!

  • @SheilaJohnsonINC
    @SheilaJohnsonINC 11 лет назад +65

    A message of truth... thank you Mr. President Reagan for your boldness...And focus on rightness!!
    .

  • @yvette714
    @yvette714 14 лет назад +10

    God forbid a President give this speech today, he will be torchered by the public & it wouldn't be aired by the Media. Our country needs GOD more than ever right now and people are fighting so hard to take it out. Our founding fathers based many of our rights on GOD, the father of Abraham, Isaac, Moses & Christ. Let's Pray for this country!!

  • @playa32892
    @playa32892 10 лет назад +36

    I'm so fascinated by this political period in America

  • @travelssrb
    @travelssrb 8 лет назад +203

    I love you Ronald Reagan.

    • @derkleinekastenyt8885
      @derkleinekastenyt8885 7 лет назад +11

      ah, someone who loves metal gear solid and Ronald Reagan. I always thinking of Reagan when I play phantom pain

  • @mariaisenberg455
    @mariaisenberg455 10 лет назад +64

    Wonderfull!! God bless America

  • @thomasdodson4836
    @thomasdodson4836 10 лет назад +94

    Greatest President of my lifetime.

  • @MetalDetroit
    @MetalDetroit 10 лет назад +361

    Dear God we need a President like Reagan again......

  • @jerryebner7582
    @jerryebner7582 7 лет назад +16

    It seems we will never have the leader he was as he set the bar so high no Republican or Democrat can touch. May God be with us.

  • @tubingen92
    @tubingen92 13 лет назад +180

    Ronald Reagan, you were the greatest of them all !!

  • @clioprof
    @clioprof 12 лет назад +98

    He was America's lifeguard at a time when we were drowning.

  • @JimfromBuffalo
    @JimfromBuffalo 7 лет назад +173

    Reagan Made America Great Again!!!

  • @reuelbiswas1228
    @reuelbiswas1228 9 лет назад +141

    A great speech for today and tomorrow !!!

  • @bgswansonlocc
    @bgswansonlocc 9 лет назад +19

    Truly the greatest President of my lifetime!

  • @lmac7973
    @lmac7973 8 лет назад +38

    There should be more conservative Presidents like him and Calvin Coolidge

    • @nicholaszacharek2248
      @nicholaszacharek2248 8 лет назад +3

      +Linda McAlister Old school conservatism was good. Today's conservatism makes Reagan look liberal.

  • @reptilicus975
    @reptilicus975 11 лет назад +7

    The evangelical Christian community in this country are the single most greatest friend of the Jews. Here in the US, and in Israel. We will always need your support. And I'm so thankful we have it.

  • @ifuckingfarted
    @ifuckingfarted 15 лет назад +17

    I was 10 in 1988. I do remember Reagan unfortunately I was to young to understand how awesome of a president he was and who it was I was really watching and what this president was actually saying and was about. Amazing. Thank god I was raised in a Republican State who had at the time lots of Reagan/Republican people big conservative society it was nice. Now that state is currently under invasion by the blue state that produces actors like Reagan :)

  • @DonSalierri1
    @DonSalierri1 12 лет назад +20

    Those of you who are quick to praise Reagan, don't forget that Gorbachev was just as important in the role of tearing down the "iron curtain". Reagan may have been adamantly anti communist, but Gorbachev helped to change the perception that this president had... Both equally potent men in tearing down a red dictatorship.

  • @mxtinman
    @mxtinman 10 лет назад +62

    when he said "when America is no longer good, it will not be great" Im like ....silence....

  • @Pureheartguide
    @Pureheartguide 11 лет назад +18

    This is an amazing and historic speech. I wish it could be in every school, every leaders heart... this would help Restore America...

  • @LambLion777
    @LambLion777 14 лет назад +9

    Our National integrity that was saved by a man, who started out Democrat and ended up Republic. Love of the Reagan family in my heart and mind, always. (^: Also most don't know that he had a Biblical study group always on hand in the White House. So glad he did!

  • @BlackAmericaUSA
    @BlackAmericaUSA 13 лет назад +11

    Thank you so much President Reagan.

  • @osolitude
    @osolitude 10 лет назад +48

    i was 20 then, and it was the first time i realized where the evil empire comes from ;-)

  • @LisaBowers
    @LisaBowers 10 лет назад +336

    THIS is what a real President sounds like!

  • @VictrolaJazz
    @VictrolaJazz 9 лет назад +14

    I had forgotten when the speech was made and was delighted to find out it was on my 39th birthday!

  • @Liquefaction
    @Liquefaction 8 лет назад +50

    "For the first time we have risen, and I see we are being
    consumed. I see circles that are not circles. Billions of dead souls
    inside containment. Unravellers have eaten country's moral fabric,
    turning hearts into filth. I'm from a kingdom level above human. What
    does that yield? A hokey smile that damns an entire nation."

  • @patriciaboggs9653
    @patriciaboggs9653 8 лет назад +61

    So heartfelt and sincere

  • @wrothacker4
    @wrothacker4 10 лет назад +755

    Back when we loved our president, and he loved us back...

    • @TheSmartLawyer
      @TheSmartLawyer 9 лет назад +90

      Obama became proud to be "an American" for the first time (and only time) when he was first elected to the presidency. Reagan was always proud and always an American. Big difference.

    • @VictrolaJazz
      @VictrolaJazz 9 лет назад +6

      What a concept!

    • @Vector_Ze
      @Vector_Ze 9 лет назад +7

      wrothacker4 The love wasn't universal. Some of understood, even then, that what he was accomplishing was the beginning of the end. The downhill slide he set us on continues.
      Up until GWB knocked him out of the position, Reagan was my most loathed President in my lifetime of six decades. That's right, Reagan was even WORSE than GWB ... in a number of ways. Google 'reagan worse than bush', read.
      What gets me is all of the dreamy eyed right wing radicals today, pining
      for the glory days of their Party ... but who would label Reagan as a
      Liberal today. If he were to run for the Presidency today they'd laugh
      him out of town.

    • @VictrolaJazz
      @VictrolaJazz 9 лет назад +21

      Well I worked at the same company in the oil and gas industry for 30 years before taking early retirement 18 years ago. I've got a comfortable home and retirement so as far as I'm concerned things have worked out fine for me. I don't doubt what you say about today's people, but most didn't live through that era of double digit inflation and unemployment, gas lines and 444 days of hostages that his presidency came off of. We had a good economy once again and felt proud of America. If people don't like that, they can go to hell.

    • @Vector_Ze
      @Vector_Ze 9 лет назад

      pleasestop1000 You ignorant fool. You don't know a thing about me. I could own your boss for all you know.l Your response is very telling. You're a mindless drone. I hate to lower myself to your level, but your level of ignorance is hard to ignore.

  • @Hard_Boiled_Entertainment
    @Hard_Boiled_Entertainment 15 лет назад +37

    "...You're the first politician who ever made it!"
    BWAHHAHAHAHAHA!!! THAT PUNCHLINE WAS JUST GOLD! KUDOS TO THE GIPPER!!!

  • @724bigal
    @724bigal 10 лет назад +38

    Thee best example of an American
    I can think of!!!!
    Thee best example of an American
    President in my opinion...
    Obama you have not, and will never compare to this true blue American!
    You have failed to fill any shoes of presidents past!

  • @michaelterry377
    @michaelterry377 10 лет назад +7

    “There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.”

  • @supsoo
    @supsoo 13 лет назад +8

    Don't despair. As Carter led to the election of RR, so will Obama lead to another great conservative President. It is reasonable to argue that RR's presidency was not and did not live up to his ideological ideas, but he was more than an idea. He was in essence the FUTURE OF THE NATION.

  • @Rick123691
    @Rick123691 13 лет назад +13

    God I miss this man ! He set the standard......now we have seen the other end of THAT STANDARD. We have to stand up and fight NOVEMBER is about saving our country. This year and 2012 , we have to make that happen.

  • @chadmock5883
    @chadmock5883 11 лет назад +242

    Ronald Reagan, The last true American President. RIP Mr. President, you are greatly missed and appreciated for your work for this country.

  • @yippie21
    @yippie21 10 лет назад +18

    it's a shame this is the "best" available recording of this speech.

  • @shunjunbea
    @shunjunbea 10 лет назад +12

    He speaks truth, so the 'now culture' hates him like they hate God, because Christ is the Truth and giver of morality and holiness.

  • @BatesKrisbates
    @BatesKrisbates 12 лет назад +9

    6:04-6:10 This is so true of the nation in its current condition.

  • @fatkinson2011
    @fatkinson2011 8 лет назад +10

    The greatest President in my lifetime! And I just barely remember Eisenhower.

  • @oRedRaider
    @oRedRaider 13 лет назад +8

    God Bless Ronald Reagan. I know I will meet you one day in heaven and I will be honored to be in your presence.

  • @sdfsdfsdfsdsdfsf8468
    @sdfsdfsdfsdsdfsf8468 7 лет назад +11

    a very capable person to deliver the truth

  • @bobglover5192
    @bobglover5192 10 лет назад +24

    The only things I didnt like in this were the background voices. If there was a way that they could be edited out, that would be great. Other than that, I LOVED this speech.

  • @jayluv1232
    @jayluv1232 10 лет назад +6

    That is what an actor sounds like playing the part of president!

  • @majungasaurusaaaa
    @majungasaurusaaaa 11 лет назад +6

    amen brother

  • @BluBird37
    @BluBird37 12 лет назад +6

    Amen

  • @piccolothegreat22
    @piccolothegreat22 8 лет назад +7

    Im glad he wasnt injured

  • @jehu96
    @jehu96 14 лет назад +2

    people we need to get the messages of Reagan out so we can get our country back. So post this video on your facebook or other sights so everyone of our friends can here the messages of Reagan

  • @Marine_0317
    @Marine_0317 4 месяца назад +3

    Greatest President of the modern world

  • @laurenhillock
    @laurenhillock 10 лет назад +17

    Watch how his eyes scan the crowd. No teleprompter for the Gipper!

  • @Jmonkey515
    @Jmonkey515 13 лет назад +31

    If Reagan could see what we as conservative Christians have allowed this nation to fall into he would have a heart attack. We need another Reagan in the White House.

  • @jrpark05
    @jrpark05 8 лет назад +16

    What an amazing speech! He is exactly right: don't try to act above it all, and label both sides wrong. Communism is evil, and the free societies that complement free markets are good.

  • @Challenger0428
    @Challenger0428 10 лет назад +142

    I routinely listen to Ronald Reagan speak so that I can be reminded of common sense, morality and intelligence in a time where the left looks for these through a cult like worship of Barack Obama, their Messiah. I miss thought and conviction like Reagan's.

  • @jerrogance
    @jerrogance 7 лет назад +79

    I voted for Trump, but Ronald Reagan is still my president in spirit.

  • @jbchar666
    @jbchar666 13 лет назад +3

    best president ever...we have no one to choose from these days that are any good..what the hell happened..lets just clone reagan and make him king and give him everlasting life..

  • @theaznfishy
    @theaznfishy 13 лет назад +4

    If we could ever bring someone back to life or build a robot that could do exactly what a person could do, Reagan would be the first to be uploaded! Reagan robot army for 2012 please ;-; God Bless him.

  • @06davidwaterman
    @06davidwaterman 14 лет назад +3

    I wish Ronald Reagan would run for president again... ;P

  • @DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1
    @DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1 11 лет назад +2

    Indeed!

  • @LandofRome
    @LandofRome 10 лет назад +22

    That shirt that says "God will you bring Ronald Reagan back"

  • @Chancey9300
    @Chancey9300 12 лет назад +4

    Long gone are the days when we hear a President lead us to TRUTH and morality...TO God and His command for ALL humanity. It breaks my heart to see that sign of these times come...It breaks my heart to see our America fall to be good and then in turn fall to be GREAT. America is falling...And long gone are the days of being really proud to be an Amercian...For me at least... :(

  • @Dadutta
    @Dadutta 14 лет назад +10

    @willyslick1 amen God bless Ronald Reagan

  • @shunjunbea
    @shunjunbea 10 лет назад +24

    So sad when the President said, "But they are not 'yet' the majority." Oh, the sadness of our nation's demise, while the world and the blind laugh into the slavery chains of mother government. Lord help us to stand for TRUTH in your POWER because we die without YOU!

    • @ronickwillis
      @ronickwillis 10 лет назад +3

      But, separation of Church and State...

    • @Bodinie
      @Bodinie 9 лет назад +3

      Rob Brundage Our nation was not founded on the principle of separation of church and state. Nay, more the deregulation of church by state. The people that started this nation sought for there own religion to be the of the state. Thus our forefathers endeavored to make no such limitation by any on man or group of people.

    • @vaporwavevocap
      @vaporwavevocap 9 лет назад +3

      Rob Brundage But, that's not a law.

    • @ethanhobbs7278
      @ethanhobbs7278 9 лет назад +2

      There is no separation of Church and State.

  • @ub30f
    @ub30f 13 лет назад +4

    @flint242 No one is prefect, we only strive for the betterment of humanity. Rather than apologizing for this country and the founding fathers, it is much better to understand the purpose of this country and the freedoms it has brought to more people than any other country in the world. Reagan was an integral part of that history, unlike the current path we heading down now. The county needs another Reagan, Washington, Lincoln, or Kennedy.

  • @TheScottytooify
    @TheScottytooify 9 лет назад +34

    a president who actually hated communism this would be so nice to have again

  • @Halo4Lyf
    @Halo4Lyf 10 лет назад +4

    Given that we have most of the guns, nearly all the trained personnel, and we're sitting on the vast majority of the strategically important real estate.
    I like our odds, frankly.

  • @nypd1531
    @nypd1531 10 лет назад +10

    Mr. President, as you are missing.

  • @fre2bmeat40
    @fre2bmeat40 11 лет назад +15

    LOVE President Reagan!! A Commander in Chief to be proud of!! Sad that our county has moved so far away from being a great nation and more towards a socialist county!! Wish there were more good men like Ronald Reagan!! Willing to be counted and standing for real morals instead of falling for anything.

  • @snakewayforum
    @snakewayforum 11 лет назад +8

    agreed bro. Reagen is a hero.

  • @egillkarlsson5240
    @egillkarlsson5240 11 лет назад +3

    SOO TRUE

  • @alexanderchenf1
    @alexanderchenf1 7 лет назад +60

    Now who save my motherland china from the new evil empire of itself

  • @lauradahlus
    @lauradahlus 14 лет назад +7

    do u have the entire speech? please post it if u do. thx

  • @BlitzedNostradamus
    @BlitzedNostradamus 14 лет назад +5

    Showed this speech to a friend of mine and he kept saying "Oh that's bullshit, he's invading peoples' privacy." The moment "morality" popped up the look on my friends face was that as if he had received a half-brick to the skull.

  • @Politicalboxers
    @Politicalboxers 12 лет назад +2

    The Political Boxers like this guy!

  • @zakbrownrigg1
    @zakbrownrigg1 10 лет назад +113

    America, how you have fallen.

  • @MrHuskerfan99
    @MrHuskerfan99 9 лет назад +5

    Why did they cut out the last couple paragraphs?

  • @RickyLee444
    @RickyLee444 11 лет назад +2

    i agree 7rayd

  • @thedetorres
    @thedetorres 13 лет назад +9

    Where is last part where he says
    Marxism-Leninism is actually the second-oldest faith, first proclaimed in the Garden of Eden with the words of temptation, "Ye shall be as gods."
    The Western world can answer this challenge, he wrote, "but only provided that its faith in God and the freedom He enjoins is as great as communism's faith in Man."

  • @DubstepJohnsomn
    @DubstepJohnsomn 8 лет назад +5

    HAPPY FOURTH

  • @RedRocket415
    @RedRocket415 11 лет назад +4

    I can't believe my generation, Generation X, is more religious than the generation it succeeded, like a third "great" awakening. You'd think people would be come less superstition as time marches on and knowledge accumulates.

  • @Msinks100
    @Msinks100 9 лет назад +4

    AMEN AMEN!!!!

  • @HeruruMeruru
    @HeruruMeruru 10 лет назад +39

    I came here because of SCP-1981.
    But I'm pretty sure the ignorant comments on this video are way scarier than SCP Foundation.

    • @Haaklong
      @Haaklong 9 лет назад +8

      ninjamitsuki Nope, the S.C.P. is creepier, but the commenters can make great D personnel.

    • @HeruruMeruru
      @HeruruMeruru 9 лет назад +7

      Haaklong Nguyệt I like your way of thinking. :D

  • @IyaPatsyOriginalEgunlady
    @IyaPatsyOriginalEgunlady 9 лет назад +1

    We're the majority now!

  • @pointyearsrule
    @pointyearsrule 11 лет назад +3

    Is the dude recording this talking while recording?

  • @MondoBeno
    @MondoBeno 7 лет назад +7

    The Ten Commandments promote church and state seperation. The first five deal with man and the lord. The second five deal with issues between men.

  • @MrTitleist2010
    @MrTitleist2010 13 лет назад +3

    No need to put down the current president or the way things are going. Disbelief in Obama is not trusting in God's plan. You may not agree with Obama or what is going on today in the government but keep in mind this is all in God's will and plan. Trusting in Him and living each day like its our last, waiting on the return of our Lord.

  • @bobobo878
    @bobobo878 11 лет назад +15

    the SCP foundation sent me here.

  • @ewashock
    @ewashock 11 лет назад +4

    Ronald Reagan now speaks to mankind through Ax of Demolition.

  • @ConservativeInfidel
    @ConservativeInfidel 13 лет назад +4

    @jbchar666 sencond
    1st: Lincoln
    2nd: Reagan

  • @Tracy3006
    @Tracy3006 10 лет назад +8

    A stark contrast to Barak Obama.

    • @724bigal
      @724bigal 10 лет назад +1

      A dark contrast

  • @codename4777
    @codename4777 13 лет назад +1

    @7lllll More like 100% TRUTH!

  • @myForumDaily
    @myForumDaily 11 лет назад +6

    i'm Jewish and i'm not exactly part of the "yoshka" fan club...but I gotta say...this was back when America actually believed in G-d...and it had the bracha (blessings) that came with that.
    America has lost it's bracha :(

  • @SCHMIDTDAVID13
    @SCHMIDTDAVID13 6 лет назад +26

    That was a great speech. Ronald Reagan was the greatest leader of the 20th century, much greater than Churchill, Roosevelt, Eisenhower. Those mentioned were weak and let Stalin spread Communism in the heart and Eastern part of Europe. Ronald Reagan made the Communism collapse. For East-Europeans, in particular, Ronald Reagan is a hero: He released them from the Communism slavery. Credit for this should also take the British premier Margaret Thatcher, the Pope John Paul the 2nd, and in a lesser degree, Michael Gorbachev.

  • @brun5074
    @brun5074 14 лет назад

    what a president, what a man. i have on film him calling colonel gadafi a misfit looneytune, and if he has to he will stike again{ airstrike} good on him and rest in peace

  • @darkitechture
    @darkitechture 11 лет назад +7

    That applause was awkwardly long... You could even tell when he was getting a bit weirded out.

  • @Akirsch16
    @Akirsch16 11 лет назад +4

    18:00 is very very sad.