Recently columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. wrote that the election of 2010 should have cured liberals of overconfidence. Conservatives swept into office spouting a much more zealous philosophy than anything from Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush. When Barry Goldwater campaigned on the theme "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice," he was thumped at the polls, but Dionne says that theme is a fair rendition of the one driving the tea party movement today. So the neo-neoconservatives come to Washington full of rhetoric and symbolism, immediately moving out of the box in the House of Representatives with an attempt to repeal health care reform, apparently wanting to show without delay that they heard the message. They wave arms and beat chests while Democrats and liberals lie low, reflecting...
Forty years ago in a speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination, Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater exclaimed "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!" These views, coupled with the nation's continuing recoil from the murder of John F. Kennedy, created a one-sided election that confirmed that most Americans were arguably not ready for a president who represented the far right of political thought. I suspect that if Lyndon Johnson had campaigned forthrightly on his agenda of expanding government largesse, extolling affirmative action and his intention to stand before Congress reciting "We Shall Overcome," millions of voters would have rebelled against his decidedly left-leaning agenda.
WHEN your mother's been wrongly imprisoned in a forced labor "re- education camp" for the crime of having a religion, whatever that religion might be, extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And so of course as Americans we find infinitely compelling the plight of Shuying Li, imprisoned in China for being a member of Falun Gong, and her daughter Yaning Liu, who is trying to get her released. Liu's work for her mom is moving. The Chinese arrest of a citizen for having a few pamphlets of the spiritual movement in her home is inexplicable to freedom-loving people. It's also evidence of a government that is deeply insecure about its legitimacy without the iron first of totalitarianism.
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!" Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Convention Michael Moore wants to make you mad. And the chances are pretty good he's going to do it. Whether you're a knee-jerk liberal, a knee- jerk conservative or somewhere in the wide open spaces in between, there will be plenty in Moore's goading, galvanizing, fiercely opinionated cry from the heart to bring your blood to a boil. Heck, he's even got people mad who haven't seen Fahrenheit 9/11.
At the 1964 Republican National Convention, Barry Goldwater declared "extremism in defense of liberty is no vice," and he was criticized by many who said the statement did not reflect American values. Extremism in the name of security is no vice" may well be the operating philosophy for which the Bush administration is remembered. There is a growing list of U.S. government actions, both domestic and abroad, that show abuse of law and blatant indifference to human rights - all in the name of security.
What happened to Arizona? The once solidly conservative bastion, which gave the country Barry Goldwater (the man who said that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice) and William Rehnquist (the former chief justice who tried in vain to limit the expansion of government power) is hard to recognize these days. Were Rehnquist and Goldwater to rise from the grave, they wouldn't recognize the place -- and not just because their old home town of Phoenix has become L.A. East. Recently, for instance, a state appellate court ruled that cities can crack down on signs in business windows that don't look just right. Edward Salib, owner of a donut shop in Mesa, a Phoenix suburb, has been battling that city's sign police in an effort to keep the large window displays that have adorned his place f...
Tucson - like Dallas before it, and Columbine, and Virginia Tech, and ... the list is as endless as the tears those names evoke - has become more than just the site of senseless slaughter. It has become a rallying cry, a cause. In the weeks since the Jan. 8 mass shooting, many politicians and other well-intentioned people have seized upon Tucson to teach the entire population of the United States the lesson that the tone of our political discourse must moderate.
... and thundered his most famous couplet: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation i...
Ideas on subway lines Regarding "More tunnel vision" (Editorial, Dec. 19):
...Nick P. Cianciosi. Paterson, Dec. 21. Extremism vs. fanaticism. In 1964, at the Republican Nationa... acceptance speech that "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" and that "Moderation in the...
By Rick Dean THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
... pursuit of justice is no virtue, and extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.". Does any o...
Editor's note: Kathleen Parker's column, which usually appears on Fridays in The Capital-Journal, was not made available for today's edition. Was 2010 American liberalism's Waterloo?
... defeat in 1964 after he declared that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." That might ...
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