“They think I've turned liberal because I believe a woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.”— Barry Goldwater, books.google.comTagged: Religious Right, Abortion
“The Conservative approach is nothing more or less than an attempt to apply the wisdom and experience and the revealed truths of the past to the problems of today. The challenge is not to find new or different truths, but to learn how to apply established truths to the problems of the contemporary wo…”— Barry Goldwater, books.google.comTagged: conservatives
“The graduated tax is a confiscatory tax. Its effect, and to a large extent its aim, is to bring down all men to a common level. Many of the leading proponents of the graduated tax frankly admit that their purpose is to redistribute the nation's wealth. Their aim is an egalitarian society—an objectiv…”— Barry Goldwater, books.google.comTagged: Taxation
“The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on - after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.”— Barry Goldwater, books.google.comTagged: Conservatism, Welfare, Dependence
“We have been led to look upon taxation as merely a problem of public financing: How much money does the government need? We have been led to discount, and often to forget altogether, the bearing of taxation on the problem of individual freedom.”— Barry Goldwater, books.google.comTagged: Taxation, Freedom
“Freedom of association is one of the natural rights of man. Clearly, therefore, it should also be a ‘civil’ right. Right-to-work laws derive from the natural law: they are simply an attempt to give freedom of association the added protection of civil law.”— Barry Goldwater, books.google.comTagged: Freedom, Freedom of Association, Civil Rights
“The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.”— Barry Goldwater, books.google.comTagged: Conservatism