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.
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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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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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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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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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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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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 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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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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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