I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
BARRY GOLDWATERI do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
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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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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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