If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
BARRY GOLDWATERYou’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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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.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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