It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
BARRY GOLDWATERAmerican business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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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.
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I’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.
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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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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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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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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?
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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.
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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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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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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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