In your heart you know he’s right.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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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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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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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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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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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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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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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