Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
—Barry Goldwater
And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
—Barry Goldwater
Now that the debates are finally over, it’s time for Hogewash! to endorse a candidate for President.
[M]oderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
—Barry Goldwater
Some folks are all atwitter over Soledad O’Brien using leftist talking points as the prep for an interview. There’s little new here—except for Ms. O’Brien being clumsy enough to get caught.
Bias in the newsroom is old hat. Barry Goldwater once said:
I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Jay Cost suggests that a part of the President’s reelection strategy is to paint Mitt Romney as a cross between J. P. Morgan and Barry Goldwater. (H/T, Vodkapundit)
Let’s see, a banker who bailed out the U. S. Treasury (instead of the other way around) and a politician who really did believe in limited government …
What’s not to like?
Barry Goldwater predicted in 1976 that there would be epic political and ideological battles between the two parties over taxes and entitlement spending. He wrote, “We have come to a crossroads” and offered a doomsday prophecy in The Coming Breakpoint. Goldwater predicted that if the government were not curbed, “the glory that is America may go the way of the glory that was Rome.”
More here. (H/T Instapundit)