“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. 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.”
Acceptance Speech as the Republican Presidential candidate, San Francisco (July 1964)

“It is a fact that Lyndon Johnson and his curious crew seem to believe that progress in this country is best served simply and directly through the ever-expanding gift power of the everlastingly growing Federal Government. One thing we all know, and I assure you I do: that’s a much easier way to get votes than my way. It always has been. It’s political Daddyism, and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.”
As quoted in “The Underdog Underdog” in TIME magazine (6 November 1964)

“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is “needed” before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.”

However, he had some positions that probably caused him some grief from the social conservatives, and got no credit for supporting them from the Left.

“You don’t need to be ‘straight’ to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.”
Statement of 10 June 1993, as quoted in “Goldwater Backs Gay Troops” in The New York Times (11 June 1993); also quoted in Barry Goldwater (1995), by Robert Alan Goldberg, p. 332
“Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.”
Op-Ed essay “Ban On Gays Is Senseless Attempt To Stall The Inevitable” in The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times (1994)

“To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.”
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Great book.
Every virtue can be pushed past its limits to become a vice.
However, I have never really understood why “Goldwater’s Maxim” attracted so many venomous rebukes.

“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”

I guess it depends on what “extremism” encompasses: that the Left allows Antifa to be its public face pretty much cinches the implication that they were envisioning a Republican analog if Goldwater won.
The second phrase, I believe, is now demonstrably correct.
The FBI and DOJ were certainly “moderate” in their pursuit of justice in re Clinton Inc.

Goering was praised by the Karlsrue Military Academy: “He is not afraid to take a risk.”
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You always have the most interesting tidbits of information!
He risked everything on supporting Hitler, and almost won.

A bit more from Wikipedia –

“A veteran World War I fighter pilot ace, he was a recipient of the Pour le Mérite (The Blue Max). He was the last commander of Jagdgeschwader 1 (Jasta 1), the fighter wing once led by Manfred von Richthofen.

An early member of the Nazi Party, Göring was among those wounded in Adolf Hitler’s failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. While receiving treatment for his injuries, he developed an addiction to morphine which persisted until the last year of his life. “

https://www.outsideonline.com/2075501/25-greatest-moments-yosemite-climbing-history

“I have no fear of heights. They stimulate me.”

Goering was praised by the Karlsrue Military Academy: “He is not afraid to take a risk.”

Also; probably no ptsd. Rather they’ll save some brass or enemy flag or something to stir the memory down the line. They’ll want to remember it.