Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
BARRY GOLDWATER
If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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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.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
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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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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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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