WE’VE NEVER HAD many good things to say about Ronald Reagan. But a member of an email list we’re on recently reminded us of a speech Reagan made during the 1964 Goldwater campaign, containing these prescient words:

“You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man’s age-old dream — the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order — or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.”