We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
BARRY GOLDWATERI have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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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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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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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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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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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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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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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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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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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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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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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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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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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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