Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
BARRY GOLDWATERI think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
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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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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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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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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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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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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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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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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