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 GOLDWATERI 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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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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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 fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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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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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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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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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I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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