How we cite our quotes: (Sentence)
Quote #1
Because of this administration we are tonight a world divided—we are a Nation becalmed. We have lost the brisk pace of diversity and the genius of individual creativity. We are plodding at a pace set by centralized planning, red tape, rules without responsibility, and regimentation without discourse. (28-30)
Basically, LBJ has turned the entire country into an enormous slow-moving bureaucratic mass that's destroying freedom and individuality. Barry's not gonna take it anymore.
Quote #2
Tonight there is violence in our streets, corruption in our highest offices, aimlessness among our youth, anxiety among our elders and there is a virtual despair among the many who look beyond material success for the inner meaning of their lives. (32)
In other words, when society's going down the tubes and people are generally miserable, who ya gonna call? Goldwater.
Quote #3
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. (49-50)
Those Democrats, trying to turn America into a land of clones… What are we, the Soviet Union? Are we in Huxley's Brave New World? Rand's Anthem? Goldwater certainly seems to think LBJ and his crew were leading America down that path.