I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
BARRY GOLDWATERWomen are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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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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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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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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I 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.
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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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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’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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