CMRivdogs Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago A couple more good Goldwater quotes. Sometimes I wish 73 year old me would have had a long chat with 12 year old me... Quote “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. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Fellow Republicans, it is the cause of Republicanism to resist concentrations of power, private or public, which enforce such conformity and inflict such despotism. It is the cause of Republicanism to ensure that power remains in the hands of the people. ” ― Barry Goldwater Quote “"I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution.” ― Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative Quote “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.” ― Barry Goldwater Quote
Tiger337 Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago I did not go to the No Kings protest in my town, although I went to one last year (my first ever protest). I drove through the area earlier and it looked liked they were getting ready for a big crowd. There was a large police presence getting ready, although I doubt they needed it. Last year there was one guy with with a pick up Truck and a Trump 2028 flag driving around trying to stir up trouble, but nobody took the bait. Quote
romad1 Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago 9 minutes ago, Tiger337 said: I did not go to the No Kings protest in my town, although I went to one last year (my first ever protest). I drove through the area earlier and it looked liked they were getting ready for a big crowd. There was a large police presence getting ready, although I doubt they needed it. Last year there was one guy with with a pick up Truck and a Trump 2028 flag driving around trying to stir up trouble, but nobody took the bait. Where I was the cops were on scene too. Its planned and organized. The protest has marshals who wear vests and make sure nobody is getting to crazy. 1 Quote
romad1 Posted 48 minutes ago Posted 48 minutes ago https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/03/28/no-kings-protests-michigan-detroit/89334423007/ Quote
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