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.
BARRY GOLDWATERYou don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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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I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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