1964 RNC Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech: Dreams, Hopes, and Plans Quotes

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Quote #4

I know that the road to freedom is a long and challenging road. I know also that some men may walk away from it, that some men resist challenge, accepting the false security of governmental paternalism. And I pledge that the America I envision in the years ahead will extend its hand in health, in teaching and in cultivation, so that all new nations will be at least encouraged to go our way, so that they will not wander down the dark alleys of tyranny or to the dead-end streets of collectivism. (93-95)

Of course, in order for this to work, America has to avoid those dark alleys and dead-end streets itself. Goldwater knows how tempting it is to lean on the government for all your needs.

Quote #5

I cherish a day when our children once again will restore as heroes the sort of men and women who—unafraid and undaunted—pursue the truth, strive to cure disease, subdue and make fruitful our natural environment, and produce the inventive engines of production, science, and technology. (111)

Scientists, entrepreneurs, inventors, innovators—those are the people our kids should be looking up to: people who embody the American spirit and rake in the green while they're at it. Who did he think children were looking up to back then—communists? Deadbeats?