“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… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share Image
“The graduated tax is a confiscatory tax. Its effect, and to a large extent its aim, is to bring down all men to a… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
“Thus, for the American Conservative, there is no difficulty in identifying the day's overriding political challenge: it is to preserve and extend freedom.” — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
“Surely the first obligation of a political thinker is to understand the nature of man. The Conservative does not claim special powers of perception… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
“In the main, the trouble with American education is that we have put into practice the educational philosophy expounded by John Dewey and his… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
“The Conservative approach is nothing more or less than an attempt to apply the wisdom and experience and the revealed truths of the past… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
“The Tenth Amendment recognizes the States' jurisdiction in certain areas. States' Rights means that the States have a right to act or not to… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
“Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
“We have been led to look upon taxation as merely a problem of public financing: How much money does the government need? We have… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
“The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery. Secondly,” — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
“Let us henceforth make war on all monopolies—whether corporate or union. The enemy of freedom is unrestrained power, and the champions of freedom will… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
“In the case that upheld the second AAA, Wickard v. Filburn, (1942), a farmer had been fined for planting 23 acres of wheat, instead… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
“Most important of all: in our anxiety to "improve" the world and insure "progress" we have permitted our schools to become laboratories for social… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
“But I am here concerned not so much by the abandonment of States' Rights by the national Democratic Party—an event that occurred some years… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
“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… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
