○  a time for choosing (aka the speech)  ○

ations of the world can seek peace. but i think we're against subordinating american interests to an organization that has become so structurally unsound that today you can muster a two-thirds vote on the floor of the general assembly among nations that represent less than 10 percent of the world's population. i think we're against the hypocrisy of assailing our allies because here and there they cling to a colony, while we engage in a conspiracy of silence and never open our mouths about the millions of people enslaved in the soviet colonies in the satellite nations.

i think we're for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we're against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. we set out to help 19 countries. we're helping 107. we've spent 146 billion dollars. with that money, we bought a 2 million dollar yacht for haile selassie. we bought dress suits for greek undertakers, extra wives for kenya[n] government officials. we bought a thousand tv sets for a place where they have no electricity. in the last six years, 52 nations have bought 7 billion dollars worth of our gold, and all 52 are receiving foreign aid from this country.

no government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. so.governments' programs, once launched, never disappear.

actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.

federal employees -- federal employees number two and a half million; and federal, state, and local, one out of six of the nation's work force employed by government. these proliferating bureaus with their thousands of regulations have cost us many of our constitutional safeguards. how many of us realize that today federal agents can invade a man's property without a warrant? they can impose a fine without a formal hearing, let alone a trial by jury? and they can seize an

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