Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
BARRY GOLDWATERI thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
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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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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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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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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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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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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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