To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
BARRY GOLDWATERI fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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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 have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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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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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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that 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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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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