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.
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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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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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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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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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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