 | Edwin Diamond, Stephen Bates - Business & Economics - 1992 - 436 pages
...VIDEO Reagan, addressing camera. AUDIO Reagan [SOF]: "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We can preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we can sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let... | |
 | Stephen D. O'Leary - Religion - 1998 - 325 pages
...going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty." You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will...man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.15 As Kurt Ritter notes, this speech seems to be a peculiar... | |
 | Donald Worster - Business & Economics - 1992 - 624 pages
...Churchill, Reagan declared in his October 27, 1964, speech: You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We can preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we can sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let... | |
 | William E. Pemberton - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 348 pages
...freedom or down to the "ant heap of totalitarianism." "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness," he said in his closing.23... | |
 | James Berger - History - 1999 - 328 pages
...Reagan's 1964 speech in support of Barry Goldwater ended with a ringing apocalyptic Cold War exhortation: "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will...man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness" (36). The most serious threats that Reagan described in... | |
 | Matthew Dallek - History - 2000 - 293 pages
...individual freedom consistent with law and order—or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. . . . You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will...man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. 10 A few hours after the telecast Reagan received a phone... | |
 | Lee Edwards - History - 1999 - 400 pages
...for whom he had cast his first vote, he concluded: You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We can preserve for our children this the last best hope of man on earth or we can sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let... | |
 | Carol Mason - Political Science - 2002 - 268 pages
...space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty." Then he proceeds to deliver these famous lines: "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will...man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness." Riffing on Abraham Lincoln's apocalyptic speech about... | |
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We can preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we can sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. 
