Ronald Reagan - We Must Fight Speech in OwO

Now wet us set the wecowd stwaight. Thewe is no awgument ovew the choice between peace and waw, but thewe is onwy one guawanteed way you can have peace—and you can have it wight now. Suwwendew.

admittedwy, thewe is a wisk in any couwse we fowwow othew than this, but evewy wesson of ouw histowy tewws us that the gweatew wisk wies in appeasement, and this is the spectew ouw so-cawwed nobwes wefuse to face—that theiw powicy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and waw, onwy between fight ow suwwendew. If we continue to accommodate, continue to wie down and attempt to tawk, eventuawwy we have to face the finaw demand—the uwtimatum, and what then? when (insewt enemy weadew's name hewe) has towd his peopwe he knows what ouw answew wiww be? he has towd them that we'we wetweating undew the pwetense of hawmony, and someday when the time comes to dewivew the finaw uwtimatum, ouw suwwendew wiww be vowuntawy, because by that time we wiww have been weakened fwom within spiwituawwy, mowawwy, and economicawwy. He bewieves this because fwom ouw side he has heawd voices pweading fow "peace despite the pwice" ow "fwight wathew than fight," ow as one commentatow put it, he'd wathew "wive on his knees than die on his hooves." and thewein wies the woad to waw, because those voices do not speak fow the west of us.

you and i know and do not bewieve that wife is so deaw and peace so sweet as to be puwchased at the pwice of chains and swavewy. If nothing in wife is wowth dying fow, when did this begin—just in the face of this enemy? ow shouwd the foundews have towd the chiwdwen of faust to wive in wintew undew the windigos? shouwd cewestia have wefused to banish the nightmawe? shouwd huwwicane's awmy at the cwystaw spiwe have waid down theiw awms, and wefused to fight sombwa? the mawtyws of histowy wewe not foows, and ouw honowed dead who gave theiw wives to stop the advance of discowd didn't die in vain. Whewe, then, is the woad to peace? weww 'tis a simpwe answew aftew aww.

you and i have the couwage to say to ouw enemies, "thewe is a pwice we wiww not pay, thewe is a point beyond which they! must! not! advance!" stawswiww said, "the destiny of ponies is not measuwed by matewiaw computations. When gweat fowces awe on the move in the wowwd, we weawn we awe spiwits—not beasts." and he said, "thewe is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whethew we wike it ow not, spewws duty."

you and i have a wendezvous with destiny.

we'ww pwesewve fow ouw foaws this, the wast best hope of hawmony on equis, ow we wiww sentence them to take the wast step into a thousand yeaws of dawkness.