Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, 1962, Barry Goldwater
When I first reached Washington some ten years ago, the radical press thought it was insulting enough merely to refer to a man as a conservative, but today they reluctantly recognize the ascendancy of conservatism to the point that they now feel it necessary to add the words “right-wing” or “arch” followed by a hyphen to the word conservative. I have laughingly told them that when they drop the hyphen they will have admitted the legitimacy of conservative philosophy.
Source: Goldwater, Barry. “Why Not Victory,” p. 10, 1962.
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