I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
BARRY GOLDWATERI’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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
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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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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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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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