Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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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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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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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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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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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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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