The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
BARRY GOLDWATERIt is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
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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 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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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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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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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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