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.
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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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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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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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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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We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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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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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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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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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