We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
BARRY GOLDWATERWe have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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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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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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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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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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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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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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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?
BARRY GOLDWATER