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Goldwater held uncompromisingly conservative views on many issues and, in accepting the 1964 Republican presidential nomination, famously said that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” and that “moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

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What we desperately need, beyond, or along with, better rules and reasonably smart incentives, is we need virtue.

And in particular, the virtue that we need most of all is the virtue that Aristotle called "practical wisdom."

Together they comprise practical wisdom, which Aristotle thought was the master virtue.

When this country first encountered genuine diversity in the 1960s, we adopted tolerance as the core civic virtue with which we would approach that.

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