Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. But at the moment I'd like to talk about another way because this threat is with us and at the moment is more imminent.In a 1960 letter to the GOP presidential candidate Richard Nixon, quoted in Matthew Dallek's The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics (2000), p.Hitler called his 'State Socialism' and way before him it was ' benevolent monarchy.' There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother to us all. Kennedy's 'bold new imaginative' program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine (1961 LP).Back in 1927, an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said that the American people would never vote for socialism but he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program.California Gubernatorial Inauguration Speech (5 January 1967).Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. It is not ours by inheritance it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Later variant: Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.Address to the annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce (30 March 1961).And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

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