Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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.
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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.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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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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