American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
BARRY GOLDWATERSex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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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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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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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 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 think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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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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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal 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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Where 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?
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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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