I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
BARRY GOLDWATERHubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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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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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
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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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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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