"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 was an American politician and businessman who served as a U.S. senator from Arizona. He was the Republican presidential nominee in 1964 and a central figure in modern American conservatism.