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.
BARRY GOLDWATERI think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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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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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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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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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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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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I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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