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5 GOP Convention Speeches to Remember

American president Gerald Ford (left) listens as future American president Ronald Reagan delivers a speech during the closing session of the Republican National Convention, Kansas City, Missouri.
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American president Gerald Ford (left) listens as future American president Ronald Reagan delivers a speech during the closing session of the Republican National Convention, Kansas City, Missouri.

Will history remember what's said in 2012? These five Republican convention speeches live on:

1964: Nominee Barry Goldwater stands his ground with a seminal speech for conservatives: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. ... Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

1976: After his challenge to President Gerald Ford falls short, Ronald Reagan's impromptu remarks leave delegates thinking maybe they chose the wrong man. He says of future Americans: "Will they look back in appreciation and say thank God for those people in 1976 who headed off that loss of freedom, who kept us, now a hundred years later, free, who kept our world from nuclear destruction?"

Total Cost: $58,065Tuition: $43,840Room & Board: $13,980Fees: $245Claremont McKenna, located near downtown Los Angeles, accepted only 12.4 percent of its applicants for the class of 2016, a rate that admissions counselor Brandon Gonzalez said ensures that students here will be going to school only with other top students.�The class of 2016 will be one of the most talented groups of students we have ever seen,� The school will charge these students a tuition of $21,920 per semester, or $43,840 for the entire academic year, incurring a total cost of
Total Cost: $58,065Tuition: $43,840Room & Board: $13,980Fees: $245Claremont McKenna, located near downtown Los Angeles, accepted only 12.4 percent of its applicants for the class of 2016, a rate that admissions counselor Brandon Gonzalez said ensures that students here will be going to school only with other top students.�The class of 2016 will be one of the most talented groups of students we have ever seen,� The school will charge these students a tuition of $21,920 per semester, or $43,840 for the entire academic year, incurring a total cost of

1988: Nominee George H.W. Bush's speech carries a line that will haunt him as president: "Read my lips: No new taxes."

1992: After testing President George H.W. Bush in the primaries, Pat Buchanan sets the house afire with a condemnation of abortion rights, gay rights and encroaching liberalism: "There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war."

2008: Introducing herself as "just your average hockey mom," vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin wows the crowd: "The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick."