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

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  • 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

Komentáře • 291

  • @RiwenX
    @RiwenX Před 12 lety +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.

  • @MetalDetroit
    @MetalDetroit Před 10 lety +360

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

  • @SheepdogColumbus
    @SheepdogColumbus Před 9 lety +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".

  • @wrothacker4
    @wrothacker4 Před 10 lety +753

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

    • @TheSmartLawyer
      @TheSmartLawyer Před 9 lety +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 Před 9 lety +6

      What a concept!

    • @Vector_Ze
      @Vector_Ze Před 9 lety +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 Před 9 lety +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 Před 9 lety

      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.

  • @nghnino
    @nghnino Před 14 lety +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!

  • @Christossavva
    @Christossavva Před 10 lety +122

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

  • @LisaBowers
    @LisaBowers Před 10 lety +336

    THIS is what a real President sounds like!

  • @mikec.2360
    @mikec.2360 Před 7 lety +183

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

  • @johnfox137
    @johnfox137 Před 10 lety +94

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

  • @1windycityguy
    @1windycityguy Před 11 lety +145

    (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

  • @alancooper5
    @alancooper5 Před 10 lety +145

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

  • @playa32892
    @playa32892 Před 10 lety +36

    I'm so fascinated by this political period in America

  • @travelssrb
    @travelssrb Před 8 lety +202

    I love you Ronald Reagan.

    • @derkleinekastenyt8885
      @derkleinekastenyt8885 Před 7 lety +11

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

  • @SheilaJohnsonINC
    @SheilaJohnsonINC Před 10 lety +65

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

  • @tubingen92
    @tubingen92 Před 13 lety +180

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

  • @yvette714
    @yvette714 Před 14 lety +9

    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!!

  • @reuelbiswas1228
    @reuelbiswas1228 Před 9 lety +141

    A great speech for today and tomorrow !!!

  • @thomasdodson4836
    @thomasdodson4836 Před 10 lety +94

    Greatest President of my lifetime.

  • @mariaisenberg455
    @mariaisenberg455 Před 10 lety +64

    Wonderfull!! God bless America

  • @bgswansonlocc
    @bgswansonlocc Před 9 lety +18

    Truly the greatest President of my lifetime!

  • @JimfromBuffalo
    @JimfromBuffalo Před 7 lety +173

    Reagan Made America Great Again!!!

  • @BlackAmericaUSA
    @BlackAmericaUSA Před 13 lety +11

    Thank you so much President Reagan.

  • @ifuckingfarted
    @ifuckingfarted Před 15 lety +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 :)

  • @jerrogance
    @jerrogance Před 7 lety +79

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

  • @jerryebner7582
    @jerryebner7582 Před 7 lety +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.

  • @chadmock5883
    @chadmock5883 Před 11 lety +241

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

  • @Pureheartguide
    @Pureheartguide Před 11 lety +18

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

  • @clioprof
    @clioprof Před 12 lety +98

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

  • @LambLion777
    @LambLion777 Před 13 lety +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!

  • @reptilicus975
    @reptilicus975 Před 11 lety +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.

  • @patriciaboggs9653
    @patriciaboggs9653 Před 8 lety +61

    So heartfelt and sincere

  • @lmac7973
    @lmac7973 Před 8 lety +38

    There should be more conservative Presidents like him and Calvin Coolidge

    • @nicholaszacharek2248
      @nicholaszacharek2248 Před 8 lety +3

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

  • @mxtinman
    @mxtinman Před 10 lety +62

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

  • @VictrolaJazz
    @VictrolaJazz Před 9 lety +13

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

  • @DonSalierri1
    @DonSalierri1 Před 12 lety +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.

  • @michaelterry377
    @michaelterry377 Před 10 lety +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.”

  • @Hard_Boiled_Entertainment
    @Hard_Boiled_Entertainment Před 15 lety +37

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

  • @osolitude
    @osolitude Před 10 lety +48

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

  • @oRedRaider
    @oRedRaider Před 12 lety +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.

  • @724bigal
    @724bigal Před 10 lety +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!

  • @supsoo
    @supsoo Před 13 lety +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.

  • @Liquefaction
    @Liquefaction Před 8 lety +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."

  • @Jmonkey515
    @Jmonkey515 Před 13 lety +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.

  • @Rick123691
    @Rick123691 Před 13 lety +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.

  • @BatesKrisbates
    @BatesKrisbates Před 12 lety +9

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

  • @fre2bmeat40
    @fre2bmeat40 Před 11 lety +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.

  • @fatkinson2011
    @fatkinson2011 Před 7 lety +10

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

  • @Marine_0317
    @Marine_0317 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Greatest President of the modern world

  • @sdfsdfsdfsdsdfsf8468
    @sdfsdfsdfsdsdfsf8468 Před 7 lety +11

    a very capable person to deliver the truth

  • @Chancey9300
    @Chancey9300 Před 12 lety +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... :(

  • @majungasaurusaaaa
    @majungasaurusaaaa Před 11 lety +6

    amen brother

  • @shunjunbea
    @shunjunbea Před 10 lety +11

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

  • @yippie21
    @yippie21 Před 10 lety +18

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

  • @jayluv1232
    @jayluv1232 Před 10 lety +6

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

  • @BluBird37
    @BluBird37 Před 12 lety +6

    Amen

  • @jehu96
    @jehu96 Před 13 lety +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

  • @TheScottytooify
    @TheScottytooify Před 9 lety +34

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

  • @Dadutta
    @Dadutta Před 14 lety +10

    @willyslick1 amen God bless Ronald Reagan

  • @shunjunbea
    @shunjunbea Před 10 lety +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 Před 10 lety +3

      But, separation of Church and State...

    • @Bodinie
      @Bodinie Před 9 lety +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 Před 9 lety +3

      Rob Brundage But, that's not a law.

    • @ethanhobbs7278
      @ethanhobbs7278 Před 9 lety +2

      There is no separation of Church and State.

  • @laurenhillock
    @laurenhillock Před 10 lety +17

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

  • @theaznfishy
    @theaznfishy Před 13 lety +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.

  • @Challenger0428
    @Challenger0428 Před 10 lety +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.

  • @ub30f
    @ub30f Před 13 lety +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.

  • @jbchar666
    @jbchar666 Před 13 lety +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..

  • @piccolothegreat22
    @piccolothegreat22 Před 8 lety +7

    Im glad he wasnt injured

  • @06davidwaterman
    @06davidwaterman Před 14 lety +3

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

  • @bobglover5192
    @bobglover5192 Před 10 lety +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.

  • @jrpark05
    @jrpark05 Před 8 lety +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.

  • @alexanderchenf1
    @alexanderchenf1 Před 7 lety +60

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

  • @snakewayforum
    @snakewayforum Před 11 lety +8

    agreed bro. Reagen is a hero.

  • @zakbrownrigg1
    @zakbrownrigg1 Před 10 lety +113

    America, how you have fallen.

  • @DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1
    @DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1 Před 10 lety +2

    Indeed!

  • @egillkarlsson5240
    @egillkarlsson5240 Před 11 lety +3

    SOO TRUE

  • @Halo4Lyf
    @Halo4Lyf Před 10 lety +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.

  • @LandofRome
    @LandofRome Před 10 lety +22

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

  • @nypd1531
    @nypd1531 Před 10 lety +10

    Mr. President, as you are missing.

  • @BlitzedNostradamus
    @BlitzedNostradamus Před 14 lety +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 Před 12 lety +2

    The Political Boxers like this guy!

  • @lauradahlus
    @lauradahlus Před 14 lety +7

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

  • @thedetorres
    @thedetorres Před 13 lety +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."

  • @MrTitleist2010
    @MrTitleist2010 Před 13 lety +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.

  • @RedRocket415
    @RedRocket415 Před 10 lety +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.

  • @HeruruMeruru
    @HeruruMeruru Před 10 lety +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 Před 9 lety +8

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

    • @HeruruMeruru
      @HeruruMeruru Před 9 lety +7

      Haaklong Nguyệt I like your way of thinking. :D

  • @RickyLee444
    @RickyLee444 Před 11 lety +2

    i agree 7rayd

  • @Msinks100
    @Msinks100 Před 9 lety +4

    AMEN AMEN!!!!

  • @MrHuskerfan99
    @MrHuskerfan99 Před 9 lety +5

    Why did they cut out the last couple paragraphs?

  • @DubstepJohnsomn
    @DubstepJohnsomn Před 8 lety +5

    HAPPY FOURTH

  • @IyaPatsyOriginalEgunlady
    @IyaPatsyOriginalEgunlady Před 9 lety +1

    We're the majority now!

  • @MondoBeno
    @MondoBeno Před 7 lety +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.

  • @Tracy3006
    @Tracy3006 Před 10 lety +8

    A stark contrast to Barak Obama.

  • @pointyearsrule
    @pointyearsrule Před 11 lety +3

    Is the dude recording this talking while recording?

  • @bobobo878
    @bobobo878 Před 11 lety +15

    the SCP foundation sent me here.

  • @SCHMIDTDAVID13
    @SCHMIDTDAVID13 Před 6 lety +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.

  • @ConservativeInfidel
    @ConservativeInfidel Před 13 lety +4

    @jbchar666 sencond
    1st: Lincoln
    2nd: Reagan

  • @ewashock
    @ewashock Před 11 lety +4

    Ronald Reagan now speaks to mankind through Ax of Demolition.

  • @texaslocoman1
    @texaslocoman1 Před 14 lety +2

    God bless this man!! God bless Sarah Palin!

  • @myForumDaily
    @myForumDaily Před 11 lety +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 :(

  • @codename4777
    @codename4777 Před 13 lety +1

    @7lllll More like 100% TRUTH!

  • @RisingStarOfKorea
    @RisingStarOfKorea Před 11 lety +2

    Was Jesus the greatest man ever lived on Earth ? Yes , but only after Ronald Reagan !!

  • @brun5074
    @brun5074 Před 14 lety

    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