There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
BARRY GOLDWATERPolitics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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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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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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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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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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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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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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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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