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.
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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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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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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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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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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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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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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