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.
BARRY GOLDWATERWhen 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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.
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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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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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 best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
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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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