I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
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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I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
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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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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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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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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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
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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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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