A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
BARRY GOLDWATERI 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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 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 think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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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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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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