Quote by Barry Goldwater
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it

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

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