You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
BARRY GOLDWATERIt’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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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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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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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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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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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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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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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