There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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 fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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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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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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The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
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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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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
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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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