Republican National Convention Speeches Now Available FREE in iTunes

Posted September 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.

Many speeches from the Republican National Convention are now available from C-SPAN and Audible.com through the iTunes Music Store, and the rest are coming soon.

Unfortunately, I am unable to give you a direct link to the RNC speeches (and the link I provided earlier to the DNC speeches is now broken). So, instead, I’ll just link you directly to iTunes Audiobooks (link requires Apple iTunes software, a free download).

Both the Republican and Democratic National Convention speeches are available from graphic links about halfway down the page.

As I said when the DNC speeches became available, it is important to listen to these things (at minimum, Kerry’s and Bush’s respective speeches). It doesn’t matter whether you are personally a Republican or a Democrat or neither, both candidates deserve to be heard so we can all make a rational, intelligent decision about which choice is best for America.

I’ll have my opinions on that matter ready for your viewing pleasure this weekend ;-).

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty and intelligence.

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.

Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions!

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. . . . We are dealing with fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.

I apologize to the rationalists even for calling them rationalists. There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them.

It is not ‘progressive’ to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

As a matter of fact, men and women are not equal in sex; they are quite unequal, and it is only because they are unequal that they complement one another. Each has a superiority of function.

Everything human must have in it both joy and sorrow; the only matter of interest is the manner in which the two things are balanced or divided.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ‘facts.’ They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Should Congress . . . pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not entrusted to the Government, it would become the painful duty of [the Supreme Court] to . . . say that such an act was not the law of the land.

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.