Barry Goldwater is oft considered the father of the modern american conservatives. Senator Goldwater was a Republican from Phoenix and many might be surprised that he advocated many liberal ideas that today would get him thrown out of the current Republican Party.
Things like:
-personal freedoms, free of government oversight
-gay rights
-small government
-pro-choice
-fiscal conservatism
Barry Goldwater Quotes:
On gays in the military:
"Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar."
"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."
On power:
"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."
On freedom:
"To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom."
On government:
"A goverment that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."
On being too liberterian:
"Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order."
On the religious right:
"I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell's ass."
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
His character represents the true values of what American Conservativism and the Republican Party should be, had it not been hijacked by the religious right.
This group is in support of candidates who would support any kind of witchcraft experimentation to revive the late, great Barry Goldwater.
(read less)Barry Goldwater is oft considered the father of the modern american conservatives. Senator Goldwater was a Republican from Phoenix and many might be surprised that he advocated many liberal ideas that today would get him thrown out of the current Republican Party.
Things like:
-personal freedoms, free of government oversight
-gay rights
-small government
-pro-choice
-fiscal conservatism
Barry Goldwater Quotes:
On gays in the military:
"Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the...
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