REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION 881

We hold fast to the law in the faith that only with law is progress
possible.

We are the party that regards individual rights as inseparable from
individual responsibilities. We have great hopes for collective and
individual fulfillment, and we expert each individual to contribute
to his own and society's progress. We believe in independence, not li-
cense. We believe in opportunity, not anarchy. We believe in com-
passion, not concession.

This is not conservatism, nor is it liberalism. It is Americanism. I
want to preserve our nation and I believe the overwhelming majority
of 200 million Americans stand with me.

And if anyone or any forces within this nation or this planet
think the American people are going to surrender in the fate of
continuous crises, they are wrong.

The American people may be temporarily confused, but. the
American people will not collapse. We shall survive the threat of
Communism abroad and chaos at home. We shall emerge a stronger
and more perfect nation.

Today as Maryland's Republican leadership convenes in America's
oldest operating State House, we see America's oldest, enduring
values still operating successfully. There is a place in this nation
for the old and the new. And it is a grave misconception of our
times to believe all that is old must be destroyed to make way for
the new. It is an equally serious mistake to take the position that
nothing new is good. There is room and there is reason for both.

The 1968 election opens the way to fresh leadership and fresh
vision. The Republican Party offers the way to progress without
revolution, to peace without capitulation, to availing ourselves of
all that is good and new without violating all that is good and old.

Maryland's Republican Party will go to the National Convention
united in the confidence that our choice will ultimately rest between
good candidates.

Great issues are at stake. The Republican Party has never had a
greater chance or a greater challenge. And I do not mean just the
challenge and the chance to win. I mean the challenge to propose
creative, impressive alternatives to present national policies — and
the chance to change the tragic course our country has taken.

We must put an end to government-by-expedient, to the theory
that public favor can be bought by massive social spending. We must