Excerpt from Goldwater's 1964 acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination
Originally given at the Republican presidential nominating convention, San Francisco, California, July 16, 1964.
Reprinted from Our Nation's Archive: The History of the United States in Documents, 1999; also available online at www.nationalcenter.org/Goldwater.html.

"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."

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