I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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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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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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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