In the words of Ronald Reagan, ".this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of powerĮxcept to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. A government that can give us everything can take everything away. Socialism requires that free men voluntarily give up their liberty, not all at once, but slowly and surely, Socialism demands we turn more control of our daily lives to a secluded power. Whether we call it Progressive, Liberal, Socialism, it is still Communism. It is easy to succumb to the allure of Socialism, because somehow Americans feel that we can "control" it, mold it into an American image. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves, from time to time, that "We the People…" are the government. Wonder how long it’ll take this time.On November 4, we will be deciding which path America should take. These words marked the end of a hundred-year-struggle for freedom. There is no resting for any one of us till we redeem our pledge in full, till we make all the people of India what destiny intended them to be. Whither do we go and what shall be our endeavour? To bring freedom and opportunity to the common man, to the peasants and workers of India to fight and end poverty and ignorance and disease to build up a prosperous, democratic and progressive nation, and to create social, economic and political institutions which will ensure justice and fullness of life to every man and woman. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.Ī relatively forgotten passage from the same speech goes on: Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. Its opening lines are often remembered during this time of the year: It was the above quoted speech that inspired independent India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s “Tryst With Destiny,” considered to be one of the greatest orations of all time, delivered on the midnight which gave way to the 15th of August, 2013, exactly 66 years ago from now.
Roosevelt’s Speech before the 1936 Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, June 27, 1936 This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. There is a mysterious cycle in human events.
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