It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
BARRY GOLDWATERWe shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
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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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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
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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 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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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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