We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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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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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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 fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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I’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.
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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
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