"Nor was Goldwater’s philosophy purely political. He stressed both personal
liberty and personal responsibility, and warned against the propensity of
modern liberalism to see society as a collection of groups: "The
conservative knows that to regard men as part of an undifferentiated mass is
to consign him to ultimate slavery....Every man, for his individual good and
for the good of his society, is responsible for his own development. The
choices that govern his life are choices he must make; they cannot be made
by any other human being.""

http://reason.com/0203/cr.gg.he.shtml

Amen!