To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
BARRY GOLDWATERI fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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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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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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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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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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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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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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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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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