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.
BARRY GOLDWATERTo my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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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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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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