# The conscience of a Conservative

Author: Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998

Genre: Category: American Literature

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74319

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+conscience+of+a+Conservative+Goldwater&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I have been much concerned that so many people today with Conservative instincts feel compelled to apologize for them. Or if not to apologize directly, to qualify their commitment in a way that amounts to breast-beating. “Republican candidates,” Vice President Nixon has said, “should be economic conservatives, but conservatives with a heart.” President Eisenhower announced during his first term, “I am conservative when it comes to economic problems but liberal when it comes to human problems.” Still other Republican leaders have insisted on calling themselves “progressive” Conservatives.[1] These formulations are tantamount to an admission that Conservatism is a narrow, mechanistic _econo...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER TEN The Soviet Menace](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-conscience-of-a-conservative-74319/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SIX Freedom For Labor](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-conscience-of-a-conservative-74319/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SEVEN Taxes and Spending](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-conscience-of-a-conservative-74319/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER NINE Some Notes On Education](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-conscience-of-a-conservative-74319/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWO The Perils of Power](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-conscience-of-a-conservative-74319/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER EIGHT The Welfare State](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-conscience-of-a-conservative-74319/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FOUR And Civil Rights](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-conscience-of-a-conservative-74319/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THREE States’ Rights](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-conscience-of-a-conservative-74319/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FIVE Freedom For The Farmer](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-conscience-of-a-conservative-74319/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER ONE The Conscience of a Conservative](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-conscience-of-a-conservative-74319/chapters/1/index.md)