To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
BARRY GOLDWATERI have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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 are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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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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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 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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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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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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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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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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