My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
BARRY GOLDWATERWhere 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?
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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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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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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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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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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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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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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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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