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Barry Goldwater: 1964 Republican National Convention Address

My good friend and great Republican, Dick Nixon, and your charming wife, Pat;

my running mate, that wonderful Republican who has served us so well for so

long, Bill Miller and his wife, Stephanie; to Thurston Morton who's done such a

commendable job in chairmaning this Convention; to Mr. Herbert Hoover, who I

hope is watching; and to that -- that great American and his wife, General and

Mrs. Eisenhower; to my own wife, my family, and to all of my fellow Republicans

here assembled, and Americans across this great Nation.

From this moment, united and determined, we will go forward together,

dedicated to the ultimate and undeniable greatness of the whole man. Together -

- Together we will win.

I accept your nomination with a deep sense of humility. I accept, too, the

responsibility that goes with it, and I seek your continued help and your

continued guidance. My fellow Republicans, our cause is too great for any man to

feel worthy of it. Our task would be too great for any man, did he not have with

him the hearts and the hands of this great Republican Party, and I promise you

tonight that every fiber of my being is consecrated to our cause; that nothing

shall be lacking from the struggle that can be brought to it by enthusiasm, by

devotion, and plain hard work.

In this world no person, no Party can guarantee anything, but what we can do

and what we shall do is to deserve victory, and victory will be ours.

The good Lord raised this mighty Republic to be a home for the brave and to

flourish as the land of the free -- not to stagnate in the swampland of collectivism,

not to cringe before the bullying of communism.

Now, my fellow Americans, the tide has been running against freedom. Our

people have followed false prophets. We must, and we shall, return to proven

ways -- not because they are old, but because they are true. We must, and we

shall, set the tides running again in the cause of freedom. And this party, with its

every action, every word, every breath, and every heartbeat, has but a single

resolve, and that is freedom -- freedom made orderly for this Nation by our

constitutional government; freedom under a government limited by the laws of

nature and of nature's God; freedom balanced so that order lacking liberty [sic]

will not become the slavery of the prison shell [cell]; balanced so that liberty

lacking order will not become the license of the mob and of the jungle.

Now, we Americans understand freedom. We have earned it; we have lived for it,

and we have died for it. This Nation and its people are freedom's model in a

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searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. But,

ladies and gentlemen, first we must renew freedom's mission in our own hearts

and in our own homes.

During four futile years, the administration which we shall replace has -- has

distorted and lost that vision. It has talked and talked and talked and talked the

words of freedom, but it has failed and failed and failed in the works of freedom.

Now, failures cements the wall of shame in Berlin. Failures blot the sands of

shame at the Bay of Pigs. Failures mark the slow death of freedom in Laos.

Failures infest the jungles of Vietnam. And failures haunt the houses of our once

great alliances and undermine the greatest bulwark ever erected by free nations -

- the NATO community. Failures proclaim lost leadership, obscure purpose,

weakening will, and the risk of inciting our sworn enemies to new aggressions

and to new excesses.

And because of this administration we are tonight a world divided; we are a

Nation becalmed. We have lost the brisk pace of diversity and the genius of

individual creativity. We are plodding along at a pace set by centralized planning,

red tape, rules without responsibility, and regimentation without recourse.

Rather than useful jobs in our country, our people have been offered bureaucratic

circuses. They have been given spectacles, and, yes, they've even been given

scandals.

Tonight, there is violence in our streets, corruption in our highest offices,

aimlessness amongst our youth, anxiety among our elders, and there's a virtual

despair among the many who look beyond material success for the inner meaning

of their lives. And where examples of morality should be set, the opposite is seen.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned

even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

Now, certainly, simple honesty is not too much to demand of men in government.

We find it in most. Republicans demand it from everyone. They demand it from

everyone no matter how exalted or protected his position might be. Now the --

the growing menace in our country tonight, to personal safety, to life, to limb and

property, in homes, in churches, on the playgrounds, and places of business,

particularly in our great cities, is the mounting concern, or should be, of every

thoughtful citizen in the United States.

Security from domestic violence, no less than from foreign aggression, is the

most elementary and fundamental purpose of any government, and a

government that cannot fulfill this purpose is one that cannot long command the

loyalty of its citizens.

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History shows us -- it demonstrates that nothing, nothing prepares the way for

tyranny more than the failure of public officials to keep the streets safe from

bullies and marauders.

Now, we Republicans see all this as more, much more, than the result of mere

political differences or mere political mistakes. We see this as the result of a

fundamentally and absolutely wrong view of man, his nature, and his destiny.

Those who seek to live your lives for you, to take your liberties in return for

relieving you of yours, those who elevate the state and downgrade the citizen

must see ultimately a world in which earthly power can be substituted for Divine

Will, and this Nation was founded upon the rejection of that notion and upon the

acceptance of God as the author of freedom.

Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they

regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of

heaven on earth. They -- and let me remind you, they are the very ones who

always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those

who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems

from false notions, ladies and gentlemen, of equality. Equality, rightly understood,

as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of

creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time,

it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Fellow Republicans, it is the cause of Republicanism to resist concentrations of

power, private or public, which -- which enforce such conformity and inflict such

despotism. It is the cause of Republicanism to ensure that power remains in the

hands of the people. And, so help us God, that is exactly what a Republican

President will do with the help of a Republican Congress.

It is further the cause of Republicanism to restore a clear understanding of the

tyranny of man over man in the world at large. It is our cause to dispel the foggy

thinking which avoids hard decisions in the delusion that a world of conflict will

somehow mysteriously resolve itself into a world of harmony, if we just don't rock

the boat or irritate the forces of aggression -- and this is hogwash.

It is further the cause of Republicanism to remind ourselves, and the world, that

only the strong can remain free, that only the strong can keep the peace.

Now, I needn't remind you, or my fellow Americans regardless of party, that

Republicans have shouldered this hard responsibility and marched in this cause

before. It was Republican leadership under Dwight Eisenhower that kept the

peace, and passed along to this administration the mightiest arsenal for defense

the world has ever known. And I needn't remind you that it was the strength and

the [un]believable will of the Eisenhower years that kept the peace by using our

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