quotes from Barry Goldwater:
"Life was not meant to be easy. The American people are adult - eager to hear the bold, blunt truth, weary of being kept in a state of perpetual adolesence."
We have heard much in our time about 'the common man,' It is a concept that pays little attention to the history of a nation that grew great through the initiative and ambition of uncommon men. The conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery...Every man, for his individual good and for the good of his society, is responsible for his own development. The choices that govern his life are choices that he must make; they cannot be made by any other human being...The Conscience of the Conservative is pricked by anyone who would debase the dignity of the individual human being.
- Conscience of a Conservative - book by Barry Goldwater, ghostwritten by Brent Bozell.
"we entrust the conduct of our affairs to men who understand that their first duty as public officials is to divest themselves of the power they have been given."
- Conscience of a Conservative
"If an enemy power is bent on conquering you, he is at war with you: and you - unless you contemplate surrender - are at war with him. Moreover you - unless you contemplate treason - your objective, like his, will be victory."
(the implication: that there should be no peaceful coexistence with Soviet Communism)
"This man is a two-fisted, four-square liar"
(describing Richard Nixon)
"The fact is that most people have no skills, have no education, for the same reason - low intelligence and low ambition"
"extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice"
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