Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
BARRY GOLDWATERI’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
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I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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