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.
BARRY GOLDWATERToday 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.
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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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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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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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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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