I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
BARRY GOLDWATERNone of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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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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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 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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I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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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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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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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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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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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 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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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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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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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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