Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
BARRY GOLDWATERAmerican business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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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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Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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 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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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.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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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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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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I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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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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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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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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