In his speech, the arizona senator outlined his commitment to conservative values and trumpeted conservatism as a diverse and uniting ideology. Senator goldwater also criticized president Lyndon Johnsons actions in vietnam and touted himself as the better candidate to fight coming is in. He lost to president johnson in the 1964 general election winning only six states and earning less than 39 of the popular vote. This speech is just over 40 minutes and our coverage is courtesy of nbc news. Senator goldwater thank you. [gloria borger hallelujah s truth is marching on glory, glory hallelujah glory, glory, hallelujah his truth is marching on [applause] to my good water 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 his wife stephanie, to Thurston Morton who has done uch a commendable job in chairmanning this convention. [applause] to mr. Herbert hoover, who i hope is watching, and to that Great American and his wife, general and mrs. Eisenhower. [applause] to my own wife, my family, and to all of my fellow republicans here assembled, and americans across this great nation. From this moment, united and determined, we will go forward together, dedicated to the ultimate and undeniable reatness of the whole man. Together we will win. [applause] i accept your nomination with a deep sense of humility. [applause] i accept, too, the responsibility that goes with it, and i seek your continued help and your continued guidance. My fellow republicans, our cause is too great for any man to feel worthy of it. Our task would be too great for any man, did he not have with him the heart and the hands of this great republican party, and i promise you tonight that every fiber of my being is 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. [applause] in this world, no person, no party can guarantee anything, but what we can do and what we shall do is to deserve victory, and victory will be ours. [applause] the good lord raised this mighty republic to be a home for the brave and to flourish as the land of the free not to stagnate in the swampland of collectivism, not to cringe before the bullying of communism [applause] now, my fellow americans, the tide has been running against freedom. Our people have followed false prophets. We must, and we shall, return to proven ways not because they are old but because they are true. [applause] we must, and we shall, set the tide running again in the cause f freedom. [applause] and this party, with its every action, every word, every breath, and every heartbeat, has but a single resolve, and that s freedom. [applause] freedom made orderly for this nation by our Constitutional Government, freedom under a government limited by laws of ature and of natures god. Freedom balanced so that liberty order, lacking liberty, will not become the slavery of the prison cell, balanced so that liberty lacking order will not become the license of the mob and of the jungle. [applause] now, we americans understand freedom. We have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedoms model in a searching world. We can be freedoms missionaries in a doubting world. But, ladies and gentlemen, first we must renew freedoms mission in our own hearts and in our own homes. [applause] during four futile years, the dministration which we shall replace [applause] has distorted and lost that vision. It has talked and talked and talked and talked the words of freedom. But it has failed and failed and failed in the works of freedom. [applause] 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. Failes 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. [applause] failures proclaim lost leadership, obscure purpose, we are lost the brisk pace of diversity and the genius of individual creativityty. Were plodding long also a pace sent by centralized planning, red tame, rules without responsibility and regimen station without recourse. [applause] rather than useful jobs in our country, our people have been offered bureaucratic make work. Ramp than moral leadership, they have been given bread and services. Yes, theyve even been given scandal. Tonight, there is violence in our streets, corruption in our highest offices, aimlessness amongst our youth. Anxiety among our ed sexerlings theres a version of despare among the many who look beyond term success for the inner mining of their lives and where examples of morality should be set, the opposite is seen. Small mobile seeking greats often r power have too and too often turned offices of Higher Service into mere personal opportunity. [applause] now, certainly simple honesty is not too much to demand of men in government. We find it in most. Republicans demand it from everyone. [applause] they demand it from everyone no matter how exalted or protect is his position might be. [applause] the growing menace in our country tonight to personal safety, to life, to limb and property in hoims, in churches, on the play grounds and places of business, particularly in our grate cities, is the mounting concern, or should be, of every thoughtsful citizen in the united states. [applause] security from domestic violence, no less than from foreign aggression is the most elementary and fundamental purpose of any government and its a government that cannot fulfill this purpose is one that cannot long demand loyalty of its citizens. [applause] history shows us, it demonstrates that nothing, nothing prepares the way for a journey nor than the failure of Public Officials to keep the streets safe from bullies and ma raiders. [applause] now, we republicans see all this as more, much more than the results of mere political differences or mere political mistakes. We see this as the results of a fund meantly and absolutely wrong view of man, his nature and his destiny. [applause] those who seek to live your lives for you, to take your ibblingts in return for those who elevate the states and downgrade the citizen must see ultimately a world in which earthly power can be substituted for divine will, and this nation [applause] this nation was founded upon the rejection of that notion and upon the acceptance of god as the author of freedom. [applause] now, those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good a simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. [applause] and lit me remind you, they are the very ones who always treat the most hellish tyrannies. [applause] absolute power does sexript who seek it must be their mistaken course sflems false notions, ladies and gentlemen, of equality. Equality, right little 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 december potimple. [applause] despotism. [applause] fellow republicans, it is because of republicanism to recyst concentrations of power, private or public, which [applause] dispotism. Force such it is because of of republicanism to ensure that power remains in the hands of the people and [applause] and so help us gold, that is exactly what a republican president will do, with the help of a republican congress. [applause] it is further the cause of republicanism to restore a clear understanding of the tyranny of man over man in the world at large. It is our cause to dispel the foggy thinking which avoids hard decisions in the delusion that a world of conflict will somehow mysteriously resolve itself into a world of formty if by just dont rock the bolt or irritate the forces of aggression, and this is hogwash. [applause] plays applause [applause] thank you. Thank you. It is further the cause of republicanism to remind ourselves and the world that only the strong can remain free, that only the strong can keep the pales [applause] now, i need. Remind you or my fellow americans regardless of party that rernls have shoulder this would hard responsibility and marched in this calls before. It was Republican Leadership under Dwight Eisenhower that kept the pales and passed along to this administration, the mightiest arsenal for definition the world has ever known. [applause] and i need. Remind you that it was the strength and the will of the eisenhower 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. [applause] it was during those republican years that the thrust of communist imperialism was blunted. It was during those years of Republican Leadership that this world moved closer not to war but closer to peace than at any other time in the last three decades. [applause] and i needth remind you, but i will, that its been during democratic years that our strength to declare it has been during democratic years that we have weakly stumbled into conflicts, deceitfully refusing to tell it even our own people of our covert participation and letting our finest men die on battlefields unmarked by purpose, unmarked by pride or the prospect of victory. Yes you read of yes. [laughter] [applause] yesterday, it was korea. Tonight it is vietnam. Make no bones over this. Dont try to sweep this under the rug. We are at war in vietnam. [applause] Barry Goldwater and yet, the president , who is the commanderinchief of our forces, refuses to say you,es to say, mind whether or not the objective over there is victory. And his secretary of defense continues to mislead and misinform the American People and enough of this has gone by. [applause] Barry Goldwater and i neednt remind you, but i will it has been during democratic years that a billion persons were cast into communist captivity and cynicallytes fates cynically sealed. Today, today in our beloved country, we have an administration which seems eager to deal with communism in every coin known, and even human freedom itself. [applause] Barry Goldwater now the republican cause demands that we brand communism as the principal disturber of peace in the world today. [applause] Barry Goldwater indeed, we should brand it as the only significant disturber of the peace and we should make clear until its goals of conquest are absolutely renounced and relations with all nations tempered, communism and the governments it now controls are enemies of every man on earth who is or wants to be free. [applause] Barry Goldwater now, 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 our guard up can we prevent war. [applause] Barry Goldwater and i want to make this abundantly clear. I dont intend for peace to be torn from our grasp because of strength or lack of will and that, i promise you americans. [applause] Barry Goldwater i believe that we must look beyond the defense of freedom today to its extension tomorrow. I believe that the communism which boasts it will bury us will, instead, give way to the forces of freedom. [applause] Barry Goldwater and i can see in the distant and yet recognizable future the outlines of a world worthy of our dedication, our every risk, our every effort, our every sacrifice along the way. Yes, a world that will redeem the suffering of those who will be liberated from tyranny. I can see and i suggest that all thoughtful men must contemplate the flowering of an atlantic civilization, the whole of europe unified and free, trading openly across its borders, communicating openly across the world. [applause] this is a goal far, far more meaningful than a moonshot. It is a [applause] Barry Goldwater its a truly inspiring goal for all free men to set for themselves during the latter half of the twentieth century. I can see and all free men must throw through the advanced of this atlantic civilization joined by its great ocean highway to the united states. What a destiny, what a destiny can be ours to stand as a Great Central pillar linking europe, the americans and the the americas and the venerable and vital peoples and cultures of the pacific. I can see a day when all the americas, north and south, will be linked in a mighty system, a system in which the errors and misunderstandings of the past will be submerged one by one in a rising tide of prosperity and interdependence. We know that the misunderstandings of centuries are not to be wiped away in a day or wiped away in an hour. But we pledge we pledge that human sympathy what our neighbors to the south call that attitude of simpatico no less than enlightened selfinterest will be our guide. [applause] Barry Goldwater and i can see this atlantic civilization galvanizing and guiding emergent nations everywhere. Now i know that freedom is not the fruit of every soil. I know that our own freedom was achieved through centuries, by unremitting efforts by brave and wise men. And i know that the road to freedom is a long and a 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 [applause] Barry Goldwater 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 d to goged encourage our way, so that they will not wander down the dark alleys of tyranny or to the deadend streets of collectivism. [applause] my fellowwater republicans, we do no man a service by hiding freedoms light under a bushel of mistaken humility. [applause] Barry Goldwater i seek an america proud of its past, proud of its ways, proud of its dreams, and determined actively to proclaim them. But our example to the world must, like charity, begin at home. [applause] Barry Goldwater in our vision of a good and decent future, free and peaceful, there must be room, room for deliberation of the energy and talent of the individual otherwise our vision is blind at the outset. We must assure a society here which, while never abandoning the needy or forsaking the helpless, nurtures incentives and opportunities for the creative end of the productive. And the productive. [applause] [laughter] [applause] we must knower the whole good is the product of many single contributions. And 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. [applause] Barry Goldwater this nation, whose creative people have enhanced this entire span of history, should again thrive upon the greatness of all those things which we, we as individual citizens, can and should do. During republican years, this again will be a nation of men and women, of families proud of their role, jealous of their responsibilities, unlimited in their aspirations a nation where all who can will be selfreliant. [applause] Barry Goldwater we republicans see in our constitutional form of government the great framework which assures the orderly but dynamic fulfillment of the whole man, and we see the whole man as the great reason for instituting orderly government in the first place. We see we see, in private property and in economy based upon and fostering private property, the one way to make government a durable ally of the whole man, rather than his determined enemy. [applause] Barry Goldwater we see in the sanctity of private property the only Durable Foundation for Constitutional Government in a free society. [applause] Barry Goldwater and beyond that, we see, in cherished diversity of ways, diversity of thoughts, of motives and accomplishments. We dont seek to lead anyones life for him. We only seek the only see we only seek to secure his rights and to guarantee him opportunity [applause] Barry Goldwater guarantee him opportunity to strive, with government performing only those needed and constitutionally sanctioned tasks which cannot otherwise be performed. [applause] Barry Goldwater we republicans seek a government that attends to its inherent responsibilities of maintaining a stable monetary and fiscal climate, encouraging a free and a competitive economy and enforcing law and order. [applause] Barry Goldwater thus do we seek inventiveness, diversity, and create a difference within a stable order, for we republicans define governments role where needed at many, many levels, preferably, though, the one closest to the people involved. [applause] our towns andr our cities, then our counties, then our states, then our regional contacts, and only then, the national government. [applause] Barry Goldwater that, let me remind you, is the ladder of liberty, built by decentralized power. On it also we must have balance between the branches of government at every level. [applause] Barry Goldwater balance, diversity, creative difference. These are the elements of the republican equation. Republicans agree, republicans agree heartily to disagree on many, many of their applications, but we have never disagreed on the basic fundamental issues of why you and i are republicans. [applause] Barry Goldwater this is a party, this republican party, a party for free men, not for blind followers, and not for conformists. [applause] Barry Goldwater in fact, in 1858, Abraham Lincoln said this of the republican party, and i quote him, because he probably could have said it during the last week or so. It was composed of strained, discordant, and even hostile elements in 1858. 1958. Yet all of these elements agreed on one paramount objective to arrest the progress of slavery, and place it in the course of ultimate extinction. Today, as then, but more urgently and more broadly than then, the task of preserving and enlarging freedom at home and of safeguarding it from the forces of tyranny abroad is great enough to challenge all our resources and to require all our strength. [applause] anyone whoater joins us in all sincerity, we welcome. Those [applause] Barry Goldwater those who do not care for our cause, we dont expect to enter our ranks in any case. [applause] Barry Goldwater and let our republicanism, so focused and so dedicated, not be made fuzzy and futile by unthinking and stupid labels. [applause] i would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. [applause] Barry Goldwater thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. [applause] Barry Goldwater the beauty of the very system we republicans are pledged to restore and revitalize, the beauty of this federal system of ours is in its reconciliation of diversity with unity. We must not see malice in honest differences of opinion, and no matter how great, so long as they are not inconsistent with the pledges we have given to each other in and through our constitution. [applause] Barry Goldwater our republican cause is not to level out the world or make its people conform in computer regimented sameness. Our republican cause is to free our people and light the way for liberty throughout the world. [applause] Barry Goldwater ours is a very human cause for very humane goals. This party, its good people, and its unquestionable devotion to freedom, will not fulfill the purposes of this campaign which we launch here and now until our cause has won the day, inspired the world, and shown the way to a tomorrow worthy of all our yesteryears. I repeat, i accept your nomination with humbleness, with pride, and you and i are going to fight for the goodness of our land. Thank you. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the Republican National invention begins tomorrow cleveland. But we look at 1960 185yearold former weymouth 85yearold former president Herbert Hoover spoke to the republican
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