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The Quote--Part II |
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Nick Goodhue |
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Jan 19, 06 - 6:15 PM |
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Additional references:
http://www.gongfa.com/jaffatongxinglianheziranfa.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/la/jlush/natural_law.html
 here are those who still ascribe Barry Goldwater's famous 1964 aphorism concerning “extremism in defense of liberty” to Cicero. . . . hese words . . . originated solely in my draft of the Senator's speech. However, confusing my words with Cicero's is certainly the most flattering thing that has ever happened to me, and I only hope that it will not end.
Harry V. Jaffa
Center for the Study of the Natural Law
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1282/22_51/57436693/print.jhtml
Jaffa, renowned political philosopher that he is, is perhaps best known to political junkies as the author of the most famous line in Barry Goldwater's 1964 acceptance speech: “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. . . . Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/v3n5/janiskee.html
Consider, moreover, the most famous words in the history of presidential convention oratory: “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!” And hence Goldwater became tagged as a defender of the John Birch Society, Ku Klux Klan, and other extremist organizations. Edwards explains that Lincoln scholar Harry Jaffa, who wrote the lines, was trying to turn Goldwater’s “detractors’ favorite epithet back on them.” The statement’s philosophical pedigree can be traced through Paine’s Rights of Man to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/17/mcwilliams2517.html
Yet at the Republican convention in 1964, there was Goldwater, intoning lines adapted (by Harry Jaffa, a distinguished conservative student of political philosophy) from Cicero: “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice ... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
http://www.mises.org/misesreview_detail.asp?control=189&sortorder=issue
Now the crucial question arose: Would the candidate succeed in overcoming the attempt by the partisans of Lyndon Johnson to depict him as a hater and as an extremist hell-bent on nuclear holocaust? Goldwater did not help matters when, in his speech accepting the party's nomination, he reminded his audience, “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice . . . and moderation in the pursuit of justice no virtue” (p. 391). The line stemmed from Harry Jaffa, a frequent target in these pages; but for once, Jaffa had a point. As a good Aristotelian scholar, he knew well that in the Nicomachean Ethics, justice, unlike other virtues, is not a mean between two extremes.
http://adnetsolfp2.adnetsol.com/ssl_claremont/publications/lincolnday3kesler.cfm
http://kyuuri.blogtribe.org/day-20030907.html
One of Jaffa’s more famous lines he penned not for himself, but for Barry Goldwater in 1964, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” |
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