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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?

Barry Goldwater

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Business Men Stupid
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Government Little Mean
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Hurt Inspirational Life
Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
BARRY GOLDWATER

Enough Giving Gun Hard
The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Gay People
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Day Freedom Gay Memorial
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Men Philosophy Spiritual
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Conservative Man Slavery
The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Constitution Function Government
I 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.’
BARRY GOLDWATER

Said Suits Winning
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Mud Peace Puddles War
The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Discipline Letters Thinking
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Home Long Men
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Negative Nuclear War
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Party People Wife
I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Political Politics Today

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