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.
BARRY GOLDWATERIf you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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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 think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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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.’
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I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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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.
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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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