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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!
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
With No Apologies (1979)
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
You don't need to be 'straight' to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
I'm the most underdog underdog there is.
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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.
They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
Address on religious factions (1981)
The specter of single-issue religious groups is growing over our land.
Address on religious factions (1981)
Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. This charge is preposterous and we ought to boldly say so.
The Conscience of a Conservative (1960)
I won't say the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew. Mark. Luke, and John.
It's a wonderful feeling to be a conservative these days.
Address on religious factions (1981)
My faith in the future rests squarely on the belief that man, if he doesn't first destroy himself, will find new answers in the universe, new technologies, new disciplines, which will contribute to a vastly different and better world in the twenty-first century.
With No Apologies (1979)
In your heart you know he's right.
I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism."
Address on religious factions (1981)
I told Johnson and old colleagues on Capitol Hill that we had two clear choices. Either win the [Vietnam] war in a relatively short time, say within a year, or pull out all our troops and come home.
Goldwater (1988)
And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
The Conscience of a Conservative (1960)
There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being.
Address on religious factions (1981)
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
The Conscience of a Conservative (1960)