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Barry Goldwater

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
BARRY GOLDWATER

Earth Flags Respect
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
BARRY GOLDWATER

Cutting Fighting Government
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Judging Men Sleep
I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Men Self Confidence Track
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Causes Liberty Neglect
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Environment People Stronger
None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Government Love
I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Hard Work Most Risk Underdog
Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Chief Instrument Liberty Men
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Conservative Man Slavery
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Discovery Essentials Mind
It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Jobs People Running
It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Growing Political Up
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Republican Self Talent
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Christian Color Race
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 GOLDWATER

Believe Thinking Tired
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Gay Julius Military
If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Mind Shaving Cream Two
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 GOLDWATER

Hurt Inspirational Life
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Justice Order Religious
Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Federation Nation Party Republican
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Government Jail Late
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Differences Equality Father
Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Family Perseverance Stories
I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Air Effort Secret
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Negative Nuclear War
I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Business Men Thinking

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