(το feelers, thinkers μου άρεσε!)
I just read
Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing” speech nominating Barry Goldwater at the Republican Convention in 1964. I was still a John F. Kennedy Democrat at the time, and stationed in Korea, so I missed its inspiration when it was delivered. It is amazing (and depressing) how little editing it would take to make it timely today.
I was stunned by the following passage:
You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a
left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an
up or down–up to a man’s age-old dream, the ultimate in
individual freedom consistent with law and order–or down to the ant heap
totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives,
those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course. -Ronald Reagan
http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/essays/the ... -spectrum/