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.’
BARRY GOLDWATERI understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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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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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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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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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.
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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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