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.
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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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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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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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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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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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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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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