It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
BARRY GOLDWATERWe are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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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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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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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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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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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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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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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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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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I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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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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