Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
BARRY GOLDWATERAmerican business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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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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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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 say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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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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