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.
BARRY GOLDWATERSome programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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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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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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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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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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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’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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