# Endnotes explained — The Conscience of a Conservative

> Chapter companion for The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater.

## What happens

The endnotes provide clarifications and additional data points, challenging the notion that conservatism is opposed to progress, and offering specific figures on federal welfare expenditures.

## Themes in this chapter

### Welfarism and Individual Responsibility

The endnotes highlight the scale of federal welfare spending, implicitly critiquing the expansion of the welfare state.

## Character check-ins

### Narrator

The narrator provides commentary and data in the endnotes.

## Key lines

> This is a strange label indeed: it implies that “ordinary” Conservatism is opposed to progress. Have we forgotten that America made its greatest progress when Conservative principles were honored and preserved.

The label 'conservative' is misleading because it suggests opposition to progress, yet America advanced most when conservative principles were upheld.

_The narrator defends conservatism as compatible with progress._

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