I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
BARRY GOLDWATERThroughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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.
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We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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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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In your heart you know he’s right.
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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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