Whither the Conservative Movement? Appendix - Goldwater
Appendix
Quotations
I. Goldwater
A. “The Preservations of our Basic Institutions” April 8, 1957 before the US Senate
1. “Indeed, it is my most sincere conviction that the whole future course of American liberty resides in our ultimate decision with respect to the matter of governmental spending and taxation…”
2. “Just as I campaigned against waste, extravagance, high taxes, unbalanced budgets, and deficit spending in the recent Democratic administrations, so shall I also, if necessary, wage a battle of conscience and conviction against the same elements of fiscal irresponsibility in this Republican administration.”
3. “…it weakens my faith in the constant assurances we have received from this administration that its aim was to cut spending, balance the budget, reduce the national debt, cut taxes – in short, to live within our means and allow our citizens the maximum personal benefits from their economic endeavors.”
4. “Surely, our people do need to be inspired – inspired in the way of helping themselves, unimpeded by Government encroachments upon their liberties, and inspired in the conviction that the Federal Government gives to the people nothing which it does not first take from them. It is not the business of the government to encourage people to become either lazy or extravagant. It is the business of government to respect their rights and spend their tax dollars wisely, and only on those projects which have public support because they cannot be accomplished otherwise on a State or local level.”
5. “I am not so partisan that I cannot see beyond the end of my nose to that inevitable point in imminent history when the United States can spend itself out of existence as a free and sovereign nation.”
6. “… so that, ultimately, the people of this country can again have the opportunity to build their own lives with the products of their own labors, untormented by excessive taxes in the name of projects with which they are not now and never have been in accord.”
7. “Big Government, no matter how benevolent, operating from a center of authority, separated by time and distances from the people, always has been and always will be reckless with public funds.”
8. “Budgets, waste, deficit financing, expanding Government bureaus and Government services, these are the secret weapons, the sugar-coated poisons which will rob us of our freedom and doom our Nation to destruction.”
9. “The major cause of our difficulty today is the reckless spending of the New Deal bureaucrats and the reckless taxation by those men who have supported the New Deal and its program of continually increasing expenditures.”
10. “[This budget] subverts the American economy because it is based on high taxes, the largest deficit in history, and the consequential dissipation of the freedom and initiative and genius of our productive people, upon whom the whole structure of our economic system depends for survival.”
11. “[quoting Martin Van Buren] It is not the Government’s legitimate object to make men rich or to repair, by direct grants of money or legislation, losses not incurred by public service. This would be substantially the use of the property of some for the benefit of others.”
12. “The question is asked, ‘What rights have we lost?’ Let me name one right we have lost. We have lost the right to decide for ourselves how to spend about 30 percent of our income, because that is about what is going into taxes today. Thirty percent of the income of the people is regulated by the Federal Government. We have lost the right to decide for ourselves where we are going to spend it.”
B.“The Economy of the United States” 7-19-1961 to Southern Industrial Relations Conference
1. “The starting point in what I regard as a sound program for promoting real economic growth in the United States is a balanced national budget. From this start, we could move ahead to other steps of responsibility – to budget surpluses, to payments on the national debt, to reduced taxes, to monetary stability.”
2. “In fact, deficit spending should only be resorted to in the face of an overriding national emergency which can be handled in no other way. Even then, it should come only after the entire Federal budget has been scrutinized and every existing spending program has been examined with an eye to determining whether it can be cut down or eliminated.”
3. “Along with a balanced budget, I believe one of the greatest needs today is for the type of tax reform that will yield more revenue to the Government and provide our economic system with the freedom and incentive it needs to operate at capacity.”
4. “Aside from the consequences of inflation, the greatest drag on our productive might today is the burden of excessive and inequitable taxation.”
C. “Economic Realities” 1-15-64 to The Economic Club of New York
1. “I am against:
- the double-talk that speaks of economy while acting to spend.
- The direction of a government establishment prepared to sacrifice the liberties of the many to cater to the demands of the few
- The direction of a government establishment that confuses local need with national necessity, trying to buy off today’s problems with tomorrow’s bankruptcy.”
2. “The Republican alternative is that men and women in their own homes, communities, and states can best solve their own problems and need pass along to the Federal Government only those problems which, national or international in nature, clearly call for a single national answer.”
3. “Let me make this clear: I have no disagreement with the statement that our economy demands a tax reduction. It most surely does. My point is that this needed tax reduction should be earned by the kind of real economizing in Federal spending that would be possible if the effort were sincere. I believe in tax relief – but not tax relief paid for by borrowed funds! And that is just what this Administration, this supposedly frugal Administration is proposing.”
Quotations
I. Goldwater
A. “The Preservations of our Basic Institutions” April 8, 1957 before the US Senate
1. “Indeed, it is my most sincere conviction that the whole future course of American liberty resides in our ultimate decision with respect to the matter of governmental spending and taxation…”
2. “Just as I campaigned against waste, extravagance, high taxes, unbalanced budgets, and deficit spending in the recent Democratic administrations, so shall I also, if necessary, wage a battle of conscience and conviction against the same elements of fiscal irresponsibility in this Republican administration.”
3. “…it weakens my faith in the constant assurances we have received from this administration that its aim was to cut spending, balance the budget, reduce the national debt, cut taxes – in short, to live within our means and allow our citizens the maximum personal benefits from their economic endeavors.”
4. “Surely, our people do need to be inspired – inspired in the way of helping themselves, unimpeded by Government encroachments upon their liberties, and inspired in the conviction that the Federal Government gives to the people nothing which it does not first take from them. It is not the business of the government to encourage people to become either lazy or extravagant. It is the business of government to respect their rights and spend their tax dollars wisely, and only on those projects which have public support because they cannot be accomplished otherwise on a State or local level.”
5. “I am not so partisan that I cannot see beyond the end of my nose to that inevitable point in imminent history when the United States can spend itself out of existence as a free and sovereign nation.”
6. “… so that, ultimately, the people of this country can again have the opportunity to build their own lives with the products of their own labors, untormented by excessive taxes in the name of projects with which they are not now and never have been in accord.”
7. “Big Government, no matter how benevolent, operating from a center of authority, separated by time and distances from the people, always has been and always will be reckless with public funds.”
8. “Budgets, waste, deficit financing, expanding Government bureaus and Government services, these are the secret weapons, the sugar-coated poisons which will rob us of our freedom and doom our Nation to destruction.”
9. “The major cause of our difficulty today is the reckless spending of the New Deal bureaucrats and the reckless taxation by those men who have supported the New Deal and its program of continually increasing expenditures.”
10. “[This budget] subverts the American economy because it is based on high taxes, the largest deficit in history, and the consequential dissipation of the freedom and initiative and genius of our productive people, upon whom the whole structure of our economic system depends for survival.”
11. “[quoting Martin Van Buren] It is not the Government’s legitimate object to make men rich or to repair, by direct grants of money or legislation, losses not incurred by public service. This would be substantially the use of the property of some for the benefit of others.”
12. “The question is asked, ‘What rights have we lost?’ Let me name one right we have lost. We have lost the right to decide for ourselves how to spend about 30 percent of our income, because that is about what is going into taxes today. Thirty percent of the income of the people is regulated by the Federal Government. We have lost the right to decide for ourselves where we are going to spend it.”
B.“The Economy of the United States” 7-19-1961 to Southern Industrial Relations Conference
1. “The starting point in what I regard as a sound program for promoting real economic growth in the United States is a balanced national budget. From this start, we could move ahead to other steps of responsibility – to budget surpluses, to payments on the national debt, to reduced taxes, to monetary stability.”
2. “In fact, deficit spending should only be resorted to in the face of an overriding national emergency which can be handled in no other way. Even then, it should come only after the entire Federal budget has been scrutinized and every existing spending program has been examined with an eye to determining whether it can be cut down or eliminated.”
3. “Along with a balanced budget, I believe one of the greatest needs today is for the type of tax reform that will yield more revenue to the Government and provide our economic system with the freedom and incentive it needs to operate at capacity.”
4. “Aside from the consequences of inflation, the greatest drag on our productive might today is the burden of excessive and inequitable taxation.”
C. “Economic Realities” 1-15-64 to The Economic Club of New York
1. “I am against:
- the double-talk that speaks of economy while acting to spend.
- The direction of a government establishment prepared to sacrifice the liberties of the many to cater to the demands of the few
- The direction of a government establishment that confuses local need with national necessity, trying to buy off today’s problems with tomorrow’s bankruptcy.”
2. “The Republican alternative is that men and women in their own homes, communities, and states can best solve their own problems and need pass along to the Federal Government only those problems which, national or international in nature, clearly call for a single national answer.”
3. “Let me make this clear: I have no disagreement with the statement that our economy demands a tax reduction. It most surely does. My point is that this needed tax reduction should be earned by the kind of real economizing in Federal spending that would be possible if the effort were sincere. I believe in tax relief – but not tax relief paid for by borrowed funds! And that is just what this Administration, this supposedly frugal Administration is proposing.”
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