The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
BARRY GOLDWATERI will offer a choice, not an echo.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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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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None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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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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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