Posted on 02/26/2010 10:05:32 PM PST by francky
“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.” -Goldwater
“The root difference between the Conservatives and the Liberals of today is that Conservatives take account of the whole man, while the Liberals tend to look only at the material side of man’s nature. The Conservative believes that man is, in part, an economic, an animal creature; but that he is also a spiritual creature with spiritual needs and spiritual desires.
What is more, these needs and desires reflect the superior side of man’s nature, and thus take precedence over his economic wants. Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand, - in the name of “concern for “human beings” — regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society” -Goldwater
“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.” -Goldwater
Today, do we have anyone who can fulfill those words?
Kind of like the US still paying Mohair subsidies to the likes of Sam Donaldson of ABC News. Mohair was used in military uniforms in WWII!!!! But that millionaire liberal jerk still gets them cause he owns an alpaca farm in New Mexico. To this day.
Kind of like the US still paying Mohair subsidies to the likes of Sam Donaldson of ABC News. Mohair was used in military uniforms in WWII!!!! But that millionaire liberal jerk still gets them cause he owns an alpaca farm in New Mexico. To this day.
Actually Gerald R. Ford, 12 August 1974
Thank you!
Here’s another interesting AuH2O quote:
“I became a Conservative by being around Liberals and I became a Libertarian by being around Conservatives.”
- - - Senator Barry Goldwater
Voted for him.
It seems Barry Goldwater was a good man.
He and others knew the dangers. I knew that’s what I believed in & wanted. I didn’t understand why he lost. I’m learning.
I agree w/ you. When I was a lil kid (I was born in 1962), my father liked AuH2O & I remember watching him speak on TV — & there was something about him that just inspired me & made me feel patriotic. To this day I don’t remember what it was, but I wish I could go back in time & re-live those moments knowing what I know now. It really bugs me that I can’t remember what it was about him that won my respect @ such an early age, but (& I’m just guessing here) it may have been that he was one of the few that wasn’t afraid to “say what you mean & mean what you say”, possibly?
Most of them are pretty busy setting themselves up with stolen money that is ours for life.
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