高华德：1964共和党全国代表大会致辞~
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goldwater's 1964 acceptance speech:
to my good friend and great republican,dick nixon,and your charming wife,pat;my running mate and that wonderful republican who has served us well for so long,bill miller and h** wife,stephanie;to thurston morton who has done such a commendable job in chairmaning th** convention;to mr.herbert hoover,who i hope ** watching;and to that great american and h** wife,general and mrs.e**enhower;to my own wife,my family,and to all of my fellow republicans here assembled,and americans across th** great nation.
from th** moment,united and determined,we will go forward together,dedicated to the ultimate and undeniable greatness of the whole man.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 ** too great for any man to feel worthy of it.our task would be too great for any man,did he not h**e with him the heart and the hands of th** great republican party,and i prom**e you tonight that every fiber of my being ** 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 th** world no person,no party can guarantee anything,but what we can do and what we shall do ** to deserve victory,and victory will be ours.
the good lord ra**ed th** mighty republic to be a home for the br**e and to flour**h as the land of the free-not to stagnate in the swampland of collectiv**m,not to cringe before the bully of commun**m.
now,my fellow americans,the tide has been running against freedom.our people h**e 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 tide running again in the cause of freedom.and th** party,with its every action,every word,every breath,and every heartbeat,has but a single resolve,and that ** freedom-freedom made orderly for th** nation by our constitutional **;freedom under a ** limited by laws of nature and of nature's god;freedom-balanced so that liberty lacking order will not become the sl**ery of the pr**on 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 h**e earned it,we h**e lived for it,and we h**e died for it.th** nation and its people are freedom's model in a searching world.we can be freedom's m**sionaries in a doubting world.but,ladies and gentlemen,first we must renew freedom's m**sion in our own hearts and in our own homes.
during four futile years,the admin**tration which we shall replace has d**torted and lost that faith.it has talked and talked and talked and talked the words of freedom.now,failures cement 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 wills,and the r**k of inciting our sworn enemies to new aggressions and to new excesses.because of th** admin**tration we are tonight a world divided-we are a nation becalmed.we h**e lost the br**k pace of diversity and the genius of individual creativity.we are plodding at a pace set by centralized planning,red tape,rules without responsibility,and regimentation without recourse.
rather than useful jobs in our country,people h**e been offered bureaucratic"make work,"rather than moral leadership,they h**e been given bread and circuses,spectacles,and,yes,they h**e even been given scandals.tonight there ** violence in our streets,corruption in our highest offices,aimlessness among our youth,anxiety among our elders and there ** a virtual despair among the many who look beyond material success for the inner meaning of their lives.where examples of morality should be set,the opposite ** seen.small men,seeking great wealth or power,h**e too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
now,certainly,simple honesty ** not too much to demand of men in **.we find it in most.republicans demand it from everyone.they demand it from everyone no matter how exalted or protected h** position might be.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,** the mounting concern,or should be,of every thoughtful citizen in the united states.
security from domestic violence,no less than from foreign aggression,** the most elementary and fundamental purpose of any **,and a ** that cannot fulfill that purpose ** one that cannot long command the loyalty of its citizens.h**tory shows us-demonstrates that nothing-nothing prepares the way for tyranny than the failure of public officials to keep the streets from bullies and marauders.
now,we republicans see all th** as much than the rest:of mere political differences or mere political m**takes.we see th** as the result of a fundamentally and absolutely wrong view of man,h** nature and h** 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 th** nation was founded upon the rejection of that notion and upon the acceptance of god as the author of freedom.
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 he**en on earth.and let me remind you,they are the very ones who always create the most hell**h tyrannies.absolute power does corrupt,and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.their m**taken course stems from false notions of equality,ladies and gentlemen.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 despot**m.
fellow republicans,it ** the cause of republican**m to res**t concentrations of power,private or public,which enforce such conformity and inflict such despot**m.it ** the cause of republican**m to ensure that power remains in the hands of the people.and,so help us god,that ** exactly what a republican president will do with the help of a republican congress.
it ** further the cause of republican**m to restore a clear understanding of the tyranny of man over man in the world at large.it ** our cause to d**pel the foggy thinking which **oids hard dec**ions in the ** 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 th** ** hogwash.
it ** further the cause of republican**m 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 h**e shouldered th** hard responsibility and marched in th** cause before.it was republican leadership under dwight e**enhower that kept the peace,and passed along to th** admin**tration the mightiest arsenal for defense the world has ever known.and i needn't remind you that it was the strength and the unbelievable will of the e**enhower years that kept the peace by using our strength,by using it in the formosa straits and in lebanon and by showing it courageously at all times.
it was during those republican years that the thrust of commun**t imperial**m was blunted.it was during those years of republican leadership that th** world moved closer,not to war,but closer to peace,than at any other time in the three decades just passed.
and i needn't remind you-but i will-that it's been during democratic years that our strength to deter war has stood still,and even gone into a planned decline.it has been during democratic years that we h**e weakly stumbled into conflict,timidly refusing to draw our own lines against aggression,deceitfully refusing to tell even our people of our full participation,and tragically,letting our finest men die on battlefields(unmarked by purpose,unmarked by pride or the prospect of victory).
yesterday it was korea.tonight it ** vietnam.make no bones of th**.don't try to sweep th** under the rug.we are at war in vietnam.and yet the president,who ** commander-in-chief of our forces,refuses to say-refuses to say,mind you,whether or not the objective over there ** victory.and h** secretary of defense continues to m**lead and m****rm the american people,and enough of it has gone by.
and i needn't remind you,but i will;it has been during democratic years that a billion persons were cast into commun**t captivity and their fate cynically sealed.
today in our beloved country we h**e an admin**tration which seems eager to deal with commun**m in every coin known-from gold to wheat,from consulates to confidence,and even human freedom itself.
the republican cause demands that we brand commun**m as a principal d**turber of peace in the world today.indeed,we should brand it as the only significant d**turber of the peace,and we must make clear that until its goals of conquest are absolutely renounced and its rejections with all nations tempered,commun**m and the **s it now controls are enemies of every man on earth who ** or wants to be free.
we here in america can keep the peace only if we remain vigilant and only if we remain strong.only if we keep our eyes open and keep ...