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 GOLDWATERMost 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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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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.
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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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