Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
BARRY GOLDWATERTrade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
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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 have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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 fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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