Today, as then, but more urgently and more broadly than then, the task of preserving and enlarging freedom at home and safeguarding it from the forces of tyranny abroad is great enough to challenge all our resources and to require all our strength. Anyone who joins us in all sincerity, we welcome. Those who do not care for our cause, we don't expect to enter our ranks in any case. And let our Republicanism, so focused and so dedicated, not be made fuzzy and futile by unthinking and stupid labels.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them". - George Orwell.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Quote of the day
Barry Goldwater - my favorite kind of Republican, in his 1964 acceptance speech for the nomination of running for President:
"AuH2O" was a great American. The person who gave the nomination speech for Goldwater at the 1964 Republican Party National Convention was the Governor of California, Ronald Reagan. Goldwater's defeat in 1964 led to the reorganisation and revival of the US conservative movement and the genesis of neoconservativism.
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