I will offer a choice, not an echo.
BARRY GOLDWATERI’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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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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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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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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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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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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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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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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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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