Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
BARRY GOLDWATERI do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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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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History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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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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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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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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