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 GOLDWATERAmerican business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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.
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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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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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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The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
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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 fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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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